Search for a Heavy Neutrino in τ Decays at Belle.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023
Historique:
received:
25
12
2022
revised:
13
07
2023
accepted:
13
10
2023
medline:
11
12
2023
pubmed:
11
12
2023
entrez:
10
12
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We report on a search for a heavy Majorana neutrino in the decays τ^{-}→π^{-}ν_{h}, ν_{h}→π^{±}ℓ^{∓}, ℓ=e, μ. The results are obtained using the full data sample of 988 fb^{-1} collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy e^{+}e^{-} collider, which contains 912×10^{6} ττ pairs. We observe no significant signal and set 95% CL upper limits on the couplings of the heavy right-handed neutrinos to the conventional standard model left-handed neutrinos in the mass range 0.2-1.6 GeV/c^{2}. This is the first study of a mixed couplings of heavy neutrinos to τ leptons and light-flavor leptons.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38072609
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.211802
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
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