Search for Heavy Neutrinos in $\pi \to \mu\nu$ Decay

In the present work of the PIENU experiment, heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays π+→μ+ν at rest by examining the observed muon energy spectrum for extra peaks in addition to the expected peak for a light neutrino. No evidence for heavy neutrinos was observed. Upper limits were set on the neut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Aguilar-Arevalo, A., Aoki, M., Blecher, M., Britton, D.I., vom Bruch, D., Bryman, D.A., Chen, S., Comfort, J., Doria, L., Cuen-Rochin, S., Gumplinger, P., Hussein, A., Igarashi, Y., Ito, S., Kettell, S.H., Kurchaninov, L., Littenberg, L.S., Malbrunot, C., Mischke, R.E., Numao, T., Protopopescu, D., Sher, A., Sullivan, T., Vavilov, D.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2019
Materias:
hep-ex
Particle Physics - Experiment
Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134980
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2671021
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Sumario:In the present work of the PIENU experiment, heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays π+→μ+ν at rest by examining the observed muon energy spectrum for extra peaks in addition to the expected peak for a light neutrino. No evidence for heavy neutrinos was observed. Upper limits were set on the neutrino mixing matrix |Uμi|2 in the neutrino mass region of 15.7–33.8 MeV/c 2 , improving on previous results by an order of magnitude.

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