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In this article we study the rare B-meson decay via two on-shell almost-degenerate Majorana Heavy Neutrinos, into two charged leptons and two pseudoscalar mesons ($B^{\pm} \to D^0 \ell^{\pm}_1 \ell^{\pm}_2 \pi^{\mp}$). We consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-20 Gorazd Cvetic , C. S. Kim , Sebastian Mendizabal , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

In a scenario with two almost mass degenerate heavy sterile Majorana neutrinos with a mass $\sim 1$ GeV, we present the semileptonic decay widths of heavy charged pseudoscalars such as $B$ mesons, either lepton-number-violating ($B^{\pm}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 Gorazd Cvetic , C. S. Kim , Reinhart Kogerler , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

We explore signals of lepton-number-violation in the charm physics sector. We study the four-body $|\Delta L|= 2$ decays of the $D^0$ meson, $D^0 \to P^- \pi^-\mu^+ \mu^+$ ($P = \pi, K$) as an alternative evidence of the Majorana nature of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-13 Diego Milanes , Nestor Quintero

We discuss the prospects of studying lepton number violating processes in order to identify Majorana neutrinos from low scale seesaw mechanisms at lepton-proton colliders. In particular, we consider the scenarios of colliding electrons with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-14 Carl Blaksley , Mattias Blennow , Florian Bonnet , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

Majorana neutrinos in the seesaw model can have sizable mixings through which they can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and show a remarkable Lepton Number Violating (LNV) signature. In this article we study the LNV decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Gorazd Cvetic , Arindam Das , Sebastian Tapia , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

We study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) in $B$-meson decays as probes of physics beyond the Standard Model. Focusing on the leptonic channels $B \to \mu N$ and $B \to \tau N$, we constrain the allowed regions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Dhiren Panda , Manas Kumar Mohapatra , Rukmani Mohanta

Nucleon decays into a lepton and two pseudoscalar mesons represent key channels for probing baryon number violation, complementing conventional two-body modes. In this Letter, we model-independently correlate two- and three-body processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Wei-Qi Fan , Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma

We study lepton number violating and lepton number conserving semi-leptonic decays of heavy baryons $\Lambda_b^0$ to three charged leptons and a neutrino. The decays occur through two intermediate quasi-degenerate GeV-scale sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Diganta Das , Jaydeb Das

There is no guarantee that the violation of lepton number, assuming it exists, will primarily manifest itself in neutrinoless double beta decay ($0\nu\beta\beta$). Lepton-number violation and lepton-flavor violation may be related, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-14 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , Andrew Kobach

We review the detection of the Delta L=2 semileptonic meson decays of the form M(+) -> M'(-) lepton(+) lepton(-) that we studied in a previous work, mediated by a Majorana neutrino with a mass in the range between the masses of the initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Claudio O. Dib , C. S. Kim

The low-energy neutrino physics constraints on the TeV scale type I see-saw scenarios of neutrino mass generation are revisited. It is shown that lepton charge (L) violation, associated to the production and decays of heavy Majorana…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Ibarra , E. Molinaro , S. T. Petcov

The lepton-number-violating decays of $B^+, D^+$ and $D_s^+$ mesons induced by the doubly charged Higgs boson have been studied. It is found that although the yielded results of the branch ratio are much smaller than the present limits from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Yong-Liang Ma

We consider the lepton-number-violating processes in $\Lambda_b$/$\Lambda_c$ decays mediated by on-shell GeV-scale sterile neutrino. We calculate the branching ratio for the following processes: $\Lambda_b^{0} \rightarrow \mathcal{B}^+…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-09 Guangshuai Zhang , Bo-Qiang Ma

The possible existence of Majorana neutrinos can be tested through the study of processes where the total lepton number $L$ is violated by two units ($\Delta L=2$). In this work, the production of an on-shell Majorana neutrino with a mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-31 Diego Milanes , Nestor Quintero , Carlos E. Vera

Heavy Majorana neutrinos are predicted in addition to ordinary active neutrinos in the models with the seesaw mechanism. We investigate the lepton number violation (LNV) in $B$ decays induced by such a heavy neutrino $N$ with GeV-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-11 Takehiko Asaka , Hiroyuki Ishida

Searches for $B$ mesons decaying to final states containing a baryon and a lepton are performed, where the baryon is either $\Lambda_c$ or $\Lambda$ and the lepton is a muon or an electron. These decays violate both baryon and lepton number…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-06-07 P. del Amo Sanchez et al.

Scalars with lepton number violating interactions decaying into lepton pairs, as those mediating the see-saw of type II, always include doubly-charged components. If these are observed at the LHC, their electro-weak quantum numbers can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Francisco del Aguila , Mikael Chala , Arcadi Santamaria , Jose Wudka

A natural explanation for the smallness of the neutrino mass requires them to be Majorana particles violating lepton number by two units. Since lepton number violation can have several interesting consequences in particle physics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-12-18 Utpal Sarkar

Motivated by the recent investigation of neutrinoless $\tau$-lepton decays by the CLEO collaboration, we perform a systematic analysis of such decays in a possible new-physics scenario with heavy Dirac/Majorana neutrinos, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Amon Ilakovac , Bernd A. Kniehl , Apostolos Pilaftsis

We computed the $\Sigma^{-}\to n\pi^+e^-\ell^-$ ($\ell=e,\mu$), $\Xi^-\to \Lambda\pi^+e^-e^-$, and $\Lambda\to p\pi^+e^-e^-$ lepton number violating (LNV) hyperon decays mediated by a resonant Majorana neutrino. The expected hyperon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-12 Gerardo Hernández-Tomé , Diego Portillo-Sánchez , Genaro Toledo