Phys. Rev. D 57, 7037 - 7040 (1998)

Helicity effects in neutral heavy lepton decays

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Joseph A. Formaggio, Janet Conrad, Michael Shaevitz, and Artur Vaitaitis
Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027

Robert Drucker
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403

Received 25 September 1997

The search for the existence of neutral heavy leptons may provide valuable information regarding plausible extensions to the standard model. In order to accurately study the decay of neutral heavy leptons, it is essential to include the helicity effects which arise from their non-zero mass. In this paper, we specifically examine the effects of helicity on the leptonic and semi-leptonic decays of neutral heavy leptons.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v57/p7037
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.7037
PACS: 13.88.+e, 13.10.+q

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