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Sensitivity of Lepton Number Violating Meson Decays in Different Experiments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-11-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the discovery prospect of different three body lepton number violating~(LNV) meson decays M112M2+M_{1}^{-}\to\ell_{1}^{-}\ell_{2}^{-}M_{2}^{+} in the framework of right handed~(RH) neutrino extended Standard Model~(SM). We consider a number of ongoing experiments, such as, NA62 and LHCb at CERN, Belle II at SuperKEK, as well as at the proposed future experiments, SHiP, MATHUSLA and FCC-ee. The RH Majorana neutrino NN mediating these meson decays provides a resonant enhancement of the rates, if the mass of NN lies in the range (100MeV6GeV)(100\, \text{MeV}-6\, \text{GeV}). We consider the effect of parent mesons velocity, as well as, the effect of finite detector size. Using the expected upper limits on the number of events for the LNV decay modes, M112π+M_{1}^{-} \to\ell_1^{-}\ell_2^{-}\pi^{+}~(M1=B,Bc,D,DsandKM_{1}=B, B_c,D, D_{s}\,\text{and}\,K), we analyze the sensitivity reach of the mixing angles VeN2|V_{e N}|^{2}, VμN2|V_{\mu N}|^{2}, VτN2|V_{\tau N}|^{2}, VeNVμN|V_{e N}V_{\mu N}|, VeNVτN|V_{e N}V_{\tau N}| and VμNVτN|V_{\mu N}V_{\tau N}| as a function of heavy neutrino mass MNM_{N}. We show that, inclusion of parent meson velocity can account to a large difference for active-sterile mixing, specially for DD, DsD_s meson decay at SHiP and KK meson decay at NA62. Taking into account the velocity of the DsD_s meson, the future beam dump experiment SHiP can probe VeN2109|V_{eN}|^2 \sim 10^{-9}. For RH neutrino mass in between 2 - 5 GeV, MATHUSLA can provide best sensitivity reach of active-sterile mixings.

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@article{arxiv.1908.09562,
  title  = {Sensitivity of Lepton Number Violating Meson Decays in Different Experiments},
  author = {Eung Jin Chun and Arindam Das and Sanjoy Mandal and Manimala Mitra and Nita Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.09562},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

40 pages, 46 figures

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