Neutrino dipole portal at electron colliders

Abstract

We propose to search for a heavy neutral lepton (HNL), that is also know as sterile neutrino, in electron colliders running with the center-of-mass energies at few GeV, including BESIII, Belle II, and the proposed Super Tau Charm Factory (STCF). We consider the HNL interacting with Standard Model neutrino and photon via a transition magnetic moment, the so-called dipole portal.We use the monophoton signature at electron colliders to probe the constraints on the active-sterile neutrino transition magnetic moments $d$ as the function of the HNL's mass $m_N$.It is found that BESIII, Belle II and STCF can probe the upper limits for $d$ down to 1.3 $\times 10^{-5}{\mathrm{GeV}}^{-1}$, 8 $\times 10^{-6}{\mathrm{GeV}}^{-1}$, and 1.3 $\times 10^{-6}{\mathrm{GeV}}^{-1}$ with $m_N$ around GeV scale, respectively, and have sensitivity to the previously unexplored parameter space for electron- ($d_e$) and tau-neutrino ($d_{\tau }$) dipole portal with $m_N$ from dozens to thounsands MeV. On $d_{\mu }$ for HNL mixing with the {muon}-neutrino, Belle II and STCF can also provide leading constraints.

arXiv comment11 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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