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Improved BBN constraints on Heavy Neutral Leptons

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arxiv 2008.00749 v2 pith:3XYI2NZP submitted 2020-08-03 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

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We constrain the lifetime of thermally produced Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) from primordial nucleosynthesis. We show that even a small fraction of mesons present in the primordial plasma leads to the over-production of the primordial helium. This puts an upper bound on the lifetime of HNLs $\tau_{N}<0.02$ s for masses $m_{N}>m_{\pi}$ (as compared to 0.1 s reported previously). In combination with accelerator searches, this allows us to put a new lower bound on the HNLs masses and defining the "bottom line" for HNL searches at the future Intensity Frontier experiments.

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