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Searching for a Sterile Neutrino in Tau Decays at B-factories

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arxiv 1908.09719 v1 pith:CY6SGBZL submitted 2019-08-26 hep-ph

Searching for a Sterile Neutrino in Tau Decays at B-factories

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The phenomenon of neutrino flavor oscillations motivates searches for sterile neutrinos in a broad range of masses and mixing-parameter values. A sterile neutrino $N$ that mixes predominantly with the $\tau$ neutrino is particularly challenging experimentally. To address this challenge, we propose a new method to search for a $\nu_\tau$-mixing with $N$ lighter than the $\tau$ lepton. The method uses the large $e^+e^-\to\tau^+\tau^-$ samples collected at $B$-factory experiments to produce the $N$ in $\tau$-lepton decays. We exploit the long lifetime of a sterile neutrino in this mass range to suppress background and apply kinematic and vertexing constraints that enable measuring the sterile neutrino mass. Estimates for the sensitivities of the BaBar, Belle, and Belle~II experiments are calculated and presented.

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