Two portals to GeV sterile neutrinos : dipole versus mixing
| Autor: | Bertuzzo, Enrico, Frigerio, Michele |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Massive sterile neutrinos, also known as heavy neutral leptons, can have a mixing with active neutrinos, $\theta$, as well as a dipole coupling to the photon, $d$. We study the interplay between these two portals, considering the production from meson decays of sterile neutrinos with mass $0.1$ GeV $\lesssim M_N \lesssim 10$ GeV, at beam-dump facilities such as NA62 and SHiP, and at the FASER2 experiment. These sterile neutrinos can be long-lived and decay into a photon in a distant detector, via the dipole operator. We find that all these experiments will be sensitive to values of $d$ which are presently unconstrained. The experimental reach varies strongly with the mass $M_N$ and the mixing $\theta$, and one observes specific correlations with the flavour of active neutrinos. The SHiP experiment will mark a jump in sensitivity, as it will probe dipole couplings as small as $d\sim 10^{-8}$ GeV$^{-1}$, thus testing new physics well above the electroweak scale. Comment: 24 pages + appendices, 6 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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