Abstract
The possible existence of Majorana neutrinos can be tested through the study of processes where the total lepton number is violated by two units (). In this work, the production of an on-shell Majorana neutrino with a mass around to a few GeV is studied in decays of the meson. We focus on the same-sign di-muon channels: three-body and four-body and their experimental sensitivity at the LHCb. In both channels, we find that sensitivities on the branching fraction of the order might be accessible at the LHC run 2 (future LHC run 3), allowing us to set additional and complementary constraints on the parameter space associated with the mass and mixings of the Majorana neutrino. In particular, bounds can be obtained on the mixing that are similar or better that the ones obtained from heavy meson decays: and .
- Received 18 April 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.094026
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