Sensitivity to Majorana neutrinos in Δl=2 decays of Bc meson at LHCb

Diego Milanés, Néstor Quintero, Carlos E. Vera

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Abstract

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 (ΔL=2). In this work, the production of an on-shell Majorana neutrino with a mass around ∼0.2 GeV to a few GeV is studied in ΔL=2 decays of the Bc meson. We focus on the same-sign di-muon channels: three-body Bc-→π+μ-μ- and four-body Bc-→J/ψπ+μ-μ- and their experimental sensitivity at the LHCb. In both channels, we find that sensitivities on the branching fraction of the order 10-7(10-8) might be accessible at the LHC run 2 (future LHC run 3), allowing us to set additional and complementary constraints on the parameter space associated with the mass and mixings of the Majorana neutrino. In particular, bounds can be obtained on the mixing |VμN|2∼O(10-5-10-4) that are similar or better that the ones obtained from heavy meson ΔL=2 decays: D(s)-→π+μ-μ- and B-→π+μ-μ-(D0π+μ-μ-).

Original languageEnglish
Article number094026
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume93
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 May 2016
Externally publishedYes

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