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arxiv: 1904.07175 · v2 · pith:4U3VRGAZnew · submitted 2019-04-15 · ✦ hep-ph

Majorana neutrinos with effective interactions in B decays

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We investigate the possible contribution of Majorana neutrinos to $B$ meson decays in an effective interaction formalism, in the mass range $0.5$ GeV $<m_N<5 $ GeV. We study the decay of the $B^-$ meson via $B^- \to \mu^- \mu^- \pi^+$ at LHCb, which is a signal for leptonic number violation and the presence of Majorana neutrinos, and put bounds on different new physics contributions, characterized by their Dirac-Lorentz structure. We also study the bounds imposed by the radiative $B$ decay ($B^- \rightarrow \mu^- \nu \gamma$) results from Belle. The obtained bounds are more restrictive than previous values found for dimension 6 four-fermion contact vectorial and scalar Majorana neutrino interactions in the context of the Left-Right symmetric model for higher Majorana masses at the LHC, showing that the direct calculation of the effective $N$ interactions contribution to different processes can help to put more stringent bounds to different UV-complete models parameterized by an effective Lagrangian.

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