Searches for lepton number violating $K^{+}$ decays

Abstract

The NA62 experiment at CERN reports a search for the lepton number violating decays $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{e}^{+}{e}^{+}$ and $K^{+}\to {\pi }^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{+}$ using a data sample collected in 2017. No signals are observed, and upper limits on the branching fractions of these decays of $2.2\times 10^{-10}$ and $4.2\times 10^{-11}$ are obtained, respectively, at 90% confidence level. These upper limits improve on previously reported measurements by factors of 3 and 2, respectively.

arXiv commentRevised version accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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