Extending Sensitivity for Low-Mass Neutral Heavy Lepton Searches

Abstract

We point out the importance of two-body final states of weak isosinglet neutral heavy leptons predicted in several models of new physics beyond the standard model. We concentrate on muon-type neutral heavy leptons $L_{\mu }^0$ with mass $M<2$ GeV which can be searched for with increased sensitivity at a new round of neutrino experiments at CERN and Fermilab. Providing explicit decay rate formulae for the $ee\nu$, $e\mu \nu$, $\mu \mu \nu$, $\pi \mu$, $\rho \mu$, and $a_1\mu$ final states, we use general scaling features to estimate sensitivity of $L_{\mu }^0$ searches in current and future experiments, emphasizing the importance of the $\pi \mu$ decay mode.

14 pages, 8 figures

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