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Searches for Majorana neutrinos in B decays

R. Aaij38, C. Abellan Beteta33,b, B. Adeva34, M. Adinolfi43, C. Adrover6, A. Affolder49, Z. Ajaltouni5, J. Albrecht35, F. Alessio35 et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

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  • 1Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 3Center for High Energy Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 4LAPP, Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
  • 5Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • 6CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
  • 7LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
  • 8LPNHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
  • 9Fakultät Physik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
  • 10Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Heidelberg, Germany
  • 11Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 12School of Physics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • 13Sezione INFN di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 14Sezione INFN di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 15Sezione INFN di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
  • 16Sezione INFN di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  • 17Sezione INFN di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
  • 18Laboratori Nazionali dell’INFN di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
  • 19Sezione INFN di Genova, Genova, Italy
  • 20Sezione INFN di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
  • 21Sezione INFN di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy
  • 22Sezione INFN di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
  • 23Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
  • 24AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
  • 25Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, Warsaw, Poland
  • 26Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
  • 27Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI), Gatchina, Russia
  • 28Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
  • 29Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (SINP MSU), Moscow, Russia
  • 30Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR RAN), Moscow, Russia
  • 31Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (SB RAS) and Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 32Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP), Protvino, Russia
  • 33Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • 34Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • 35European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
  • 36Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 37Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 38Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 39Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 40NSC Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT), Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 41Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences (KINR), Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 42University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • 43H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • 44Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 45Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
  • 46STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 47School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 48School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • 49Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • 50Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  • 51School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • 52Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  • 53Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
  • 54Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (associated with Institution #2)
  • 55CC-IN2P3, CNRS/IN2P3, Lyon-Villeurbanne, Franceq
  • 56Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germanyr

  • aFull author list given at the end of the article.
  • bAlso at LIFAELS, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.
  • cAlso at Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy.
  • dAlso at Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
  • eAlso at Università di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  • fAlso at Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
  • gAlso at Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
  • hAlso at Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
  • iAlso at Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
  • jAlso at Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
  • kAlso at Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
  • lAlso at Hanoi University of Science, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
  • mAlso at Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
  • nAlso at Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
  • oAlso at Università di Urbino, Urbino, Italy.
  • pAlso at P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Science (LPI RAS), Moscow, Russia.
  • qAssociated with CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
  • rAssociated with Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Phys. Rev. D 85, 112004 – Published 11 June, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.112004

Abstract

Searches for heavy Majorana neutrinos in B decays in final states containing hadrons plus a μμ pair have been performed using 0.41fb1 of data collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The D+μμ and D*+μμ final states can arise from the presence of virtual Majorana neutrinos of any mass. Other final states containing π+, Ds+, or D0π+ can be mediated by an on-shell Majorana neutrino. No signals are found and upper limits are set on Majorana neutrino production as a function of mass, and also on the B decay branching fractions.

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