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Constraints from the CHARM experiment on Heavy Neutral Leptons with tau mixing

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-11-25 v3

Abstract

We re-analyze the results of the searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) by the CHARM experiment. We study HNL decay channel Ne+eν/μ+μνN\to e^{+}e^{-}\nu/\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\nu and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL's mixings with νe\nu_e or νμ\nu_{\mu}, the same data also implies limits on the HNLs that mix only with ντ\nu_{\tau} and have masses in the range 380 MeV<mN1.6 GeV380 \text{ MeV}<m_{N}\lesssim 1.6\text{ GeV} - the region in the parameter space that was considered in the literature as a target for HNLs searches.

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@article{arxiv.2107.14685,
  title  = {Constraints from the CHARM experiment on Heavy Neutral Leptons with tau mixing},
  author = {Iryna Boiarska and Alexey Boyarsky and Oleksii Mikulenko and Maksym Ovchynnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14685},
  year   = {2021}
}

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