Extending sensitivity for low-mass neutral heavy lepton searches
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 (United States)
- Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66502 (United States)
We point out the importance of two-body final states of weak isosinglet neutral heavy leptons predicted in several models of new physics beyond the standard model. We concentrate on muon-type neutral heavy leptons L{sub {mu}}{sup 0} with a mass M{lt}2 GeV that can be searched for with increased sensitivity at a new round of neutrino experiments at CERN and Fermilab. Providing explicit decay rate formulas for the ee{nu}, e{mu}{nu}, {mu}{mu}{nu}, {pi}{mu}, {rho}{mu}, and a{sub 1}{mu} final states, we use general scaling features to estimate the sensitivity of L{sub {mu}}{sup 0} searches in current and future experiments, emphasizing the importance of the {pi}{mu} decay mode. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 538721
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 56; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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