Search for heavy neutral leptons in $W^{+}\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{\pm }\text{jet}$ decays

Abstract

A search is performed for heavy neutrinos in the decay of a $W$ boson into two muons and a jet. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately $3.0{\text{ fb}}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and $8\text{ TeV}$ collected with the LHCb experiment. Both same-sign and opposite-sign muons in the final state are considered. Data are found to be consistent with the expected background. Upper limits on the coupling of a heavy neutrino with the Standard Model neutrino are set at $95\%$ confidence level in the heavy-neutrino mass range from 5 to $50\text{ GeV}/c^2$. These are of the order of $10^{-3}$ for lepton-number-conserving decays and of the order of $10^{-4}$ for lepton-number-violating heavy-neutrino decays.

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