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Title: Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays

Abstract

Here, a search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays using a data sample collected with a minimum bias trigger by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2015 is reported. Upper limits at the 10-7 to 10-6 level are established on the elements of the extended neutrino mixing matrix.

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
Contributing Org.:
The NA62 Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1437173
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; 05H12UM5; 05H15UMCNA; 1506088; 268062; 336581; 404716; RBFR12JF2Z; UF100308; UF0758946; ST/J00412X/1; ST/M005798/1
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics Letters. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 778; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Cortina Gil, E., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Velghe, B., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Numao, T., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gamberini, E., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Volpe, R., Antonelli, A., Gonnella, F., Lamanna, G., Lanfranchi, G., Mannocchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Duk, V., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D'Agostini, G., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., De Simone, N., Federici, L., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Iacobuzio, L., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Shaikhiev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Koval, M., Kucerova, Z., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Duval, F., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Jenninger, B., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Venditti, S., Brunetti, M. B., Fascianelli, V., Goudzovski, E., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Dainton, J. B., Fry, J. R., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.031.
Cortina Gil, E., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Velghe, B., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Numao, T., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gamberini, E., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Volpe, R., Antonelli, A., Gonnella, F., Lamanna, G., Lanfranchi, G., Mannocchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Duk, V., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D'Agostini, G., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., De Simone, N., Federici, L., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Iacobuzio, L., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Shaikhiev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Koval, M., Kucerova, Z., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Duval, F., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Jenninger, B., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Venditti, S., Brunetti, M. B., Fascianelli, V., Goudzovski, E., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Dainton, J. B., Fry, J. R., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., & Rubin, P. Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.031
Cortina Gil, E., Minucci, E., Padolski, S., Petrov, P., Velghe, B., Georgiev, G., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Numao, T., Bryman, D., Fu, J., Husek, T., Kampf, K., Zamkovsky, M., Aliberti, R., Khoriauli, G., Kunze, J., Lomidze, D., Marchevski, R., Peruzzo, L., Vormstein, M., Wanke, R., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gamberini, E., Neri, I., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Wahl, H., Cotta Ramusino, A., Gianoli, A., Iacopini, E., Latino, G., Lenti, M., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Volpe, R., Antonelli, A., Gonnella, F., Lamanna, G., Lanfranchi, G., Mannocchi, G., Martellotti, S., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Ambrosino, F., Capussela, T., Corvino, M., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Mirra, M., Napolitano, M., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Brizioli, F., Imbergamo, E., Lollini, R., Santoni, C., Barbanera, M., Cenci, P., Checcucci, B., Duk, V., Lubrano, P., Lupi, M., Pepe, M., Piccini, M., Costantini, F., Di Lella, L., Doble, N., Giorgi, M., Giudici, S., Pedreschi, E., Sozzi, M., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Piandani, R., Pinzino, J., Pontisso, L., Spinella, F., Mannelli, I., D'Agostini, G., Biagioni, A., Leonardi, E., Lonardo, A., Valente, P., Vicini, P., Ammendola, R., Bonaiuto, V., De Simone, N., Federici, L., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Sargeni, F., Arcidiacono, R., Bloch-Devaux, B., Boretto, M., Iacobuzio, L., Menichetti, E., Migliore, E., Soldi, D., Biino, C., Filippi, A., Marchetto, F., Engelfried, J., Estrada-Tristan, N., Bragadireanu, A. M., Ghinescu, S. A., Hutanu, O. E., Enik, T., Falaleev, V., Kekelidze, V., Korotkova, A., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Polenkevich, I., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Fedotov, S., Gushchin, E., Khotyantsev, A., Kleimenova, A., Kudenko, Y., Kurochka, V., Medvedeva, M., Mefodev, A., Shaikhiev, A., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Ostankov, A., Semenov, V., Sugonyaev, V., Yushchenko, O., Bician, L., Blazek, T., Cerny, V., Koval, M., Kucerova, Z., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Duval, F., Döbrich, B., Gatignon, L., Guida, R., Hahn, F., Jenninger, B., Laycock, P., Lehmann Miotto, G., Lichard, P., Mapelli, A., Noy, M., Palladino, V., Perrin-Terrin, M., Ruggiero, G., Ryjov, V., Venditti, S., Brunetti, M. B., Fascianelli, V., Goudzovski, E., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., Heath, H., Page, R., Trilov, S., Angelucci, B., Britton, D., Graham, C., Protopopescu, D., Dainton, J. B., Fry, J. R., Fulton, L., Hutchcroft, D., Massri, K., Maurice, E., Wrona, B., Conovaloff, A., Cooper, P., Coward, D., and Rubin, P. Sun . "Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.031. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1437173.
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title = {Search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays},
author = {Cortina Gil, E. and Minucci, E. and Padolski, S. and Petrov, P. and Velghe, B. and Georgiev, G. and Kozhuharov, V. and Litov, L. and Numao, T. and Bryman, D. and Fu, J. and Husek, T. and Kampf, K. and Zamkovsky, M. and Aliberti, R. and Khoriauli, G. and Kunze, J. and Lomidze, D. and Marchevski, R. and Peruzzo, L. and Vormstein, M. and Wanke, R. and Dalpiaz, P. and Fiorini, M. and Gamberini, E. and Neri, I. and Norton, A. and Petrucci, F. and Wahl, H. and Cotta Ramusino, A. and Gianoli, A. and Iacopini, E. and Latino, G. and Lenti, M. and Bizzeti, A. and Bucci, F. and Volpe, R. and Antonelli, A. and Gonnella, F. and Lamanna, G. and Lanfranchi, G. and Mannocchi, G. and Martellotti, S. and Moulson, M. and Raggi, M. and Spadaro, T. and Ambrosino, F. and Capussela, T. and Corvino, M. and Di Filippo, D. and Massarotti, P. and Mirra, M. and Napolitano, M. and Saracino, G. and Anzivino, G. and Brizioli, F. and Imbergamo, E. and Lollini, R. and Santoni, C. and Barbanera, M. and Cenci, P. and Checcucci, B. and Duk, V. and Lubrano, P. and Lupi, M. and Pepe, M. and Piccini, M. and Costantini, F. and Di Lella, L. and Doble, N. and Giorgi, M. and Giudici, S. and Pedreschi, E. and Sozzi, M. and Cerri, C. and Fantechi, R. and Piandani, R. and Pinzino, J. and Pontisso, L. and Spinella, F. and Mannelli, I. and D'Agostini, G. and Biagioni, A. and Leonardi, E. and Lonardo, A. and Valente, P. and Vicini, P. and Ammendola, R. and Bonaiuto, V. and De Simone, N. and Federici, L. and Fucci, A. and Salamon, A. and Sargeni, F. and Arcidiacono, R. and Bloch-Devaux, B. and Boretto, M. and Iacobuzio, L. and Menichetti, E. and Migliore, E. and Soldi, D. and Biino, C. and Filippi, A. and Marchetto, F. and Engelfried, J. and Estrada-Tristan, N. and Bragadireanu, A. M. and Ghinescu, S. A. and Hutanu, O. E. and Enik, T. and Falaleev, V. and Kekelidze, V. and Korotkova, A. and Madigozhin, D. and Misheva, M. and Molokanova, N. and Movchan, S. and Polenkevich, I. and Potrebenikov, Yu. and Shkarovskiy, S. and Zinchenko, A. and Fedotov, S. and Gushchin, E. and Khotyantsev, A. and Kleimenova, A. and Kudenko, Y. and Kurochka, V. and Medvedeva, M. and Mefodev, A. and Shaikhiev, A. and Kholodenko, S. and Kurshetsov, V. and Obraztsov, V. and Ostankov, A. and Semenov, V. and Sugonyaev, V. and Yushchenko, O. and Bician, L. and Blazek, T. and Cerny, V. and Koval, M. and Kucerova, Z. and Ceccucci, A. and Danielsson, H. and Duval, F. and Döbrich, B. and Gatignon, L. and Guida, R. and Hahn, F. and Jenninger, B. and Laycock, P. and Lehmann Miotto, G. and Lichard, P. and Mapelli, A. and Noy, M. and Palladino, V. and Perrin-Terrin, M. and Ruggiero, G. and Ryjov, V. and Venditti, S. and Brunetti, M. B. and Fascianelli, V. and Goudzovski, E. and Lazzeroni, C. and Lurkin, N. and Newson, F. and Parkinson, C. and Romano, A. and Sergi, A. and Sturgess, A. and Swallow, J. and Heath, H. and Page, R. and Trilov, S. and Angelucci, B. and Britton, D. and Graham, C. and Protopopescu, D. and Dainton, J. B. and Fry, J. R. and Fulton, L. and Hutchcroft, D. and Massri, K. and Maurice, E. and Wrona, B. and Conovaloff, A. and Cooper, P. and Coward, D. and Rubin, P.},
abstractNote = {Here, a search for heavy neutral lepton production in K+ decays using a data sample collected with a minimum bias trigger by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2015 is reported. Upper limits at the 10-7 to 10-6 level are established on the elements of the extended neutrino mixing matrix.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2018.01.031},
journal = {Physics Letters. B},
number = C,
volume = 778,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Sun Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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