Long-lived Sterile Neutrinos at Belle II in Effective Field Theory

Abstract

Large numbers of $\tau$ leptons are produced at Belle II. These could potentially decay into sterile neutrinos that, for the mass range under consideration, are typically long-lived, leading to displaced-vertex signatures. Here, we study a displaced-vertex search sterile-neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory. The production and decay of the sterile neutrinos can be realized via either the standard active-sterile neutrino mixing or higher-dimensional operators in the effective Lagrangian. We perform Monte-Carlo simulations to estimate the Belle II sensitivities to such interactions. We find that Belle II can probe non-renormalizable dimension-six operators involving a single sterile neutrino up to a few TeV in the new-physics scale.

arXiv commentv1: 14 pages + Appendix, 8 figures, 4 tables, v2: 15 pages+appendix, 9 figures, 4 tables, published in JHEP

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