Right-handed Dirac and Majorana neutrinos at Belle II
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| author | Han, Tao Liao, Jiajun Liu, Hongkai Marfatia, Danny |
| author_facet | Han, Tao Liao, Jiajun Liu, Hongkai Marfatia, Danny |
| contents | We assess the ability of the Belle II experiment to probe the Dirac or Majorana nature of a massive right-handed neutrino (RHN) $N$ in the MeV to GeV mass range. We consider the production and decay of RHNs to proceed via new interactions described by the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) extended with right-handed neutrino fields (SMNEFT), and not via mass mixing with active neutrinos. We find that Belle II has the potential to discover $N$ if kinematically accessible. We perform detailed simulations of the angular distributions of lepton pairs from the decay of $N$ produced in two-body and three-body decays of $B$ mesons. We show that for $m_N$ above 100 MeV, Belle II can distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos at more than the 5$σ$ CL for most operators, and the combination of the production and decay operators can be identified from the subsequent decay of the heavy neutrino. Also, the production operators can be identified using three-body $B$ meson decay for any $m_N$ if the $B\to D\ell N$ and $B\to D^*\ell N$ events can be well separated. |
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| spellingShingle | Right-handed Dirac and Majorana neutrinos at Belle II Han, Tao Liao, Jiajun Liu, Hongkai Marfatia, Danny High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment We assess the ability of the Belle II experiment to probe the Dirac or Majorana nature of a massive right-handed neutrino (RHN) $N$ in the MeV to GeV mass range. We consider the production and decay of RHNs to proceed via new interactions described by the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) extended with right-handed neutrino fields (SMNEFT), and not via mass mixing with active neutrinos. We find that Belle II has the potential to discover $N$ if kinematically accessible. We perform detailed simulations of the angular distributions of lepton pairs from the decay of $N$ produced in two-body and three-body decays of $B$ mesons. We show that for $m_N$ above 100 MeV, Belle II can distinguish between Dirac and Majorana neutrinos at more than the 5$σ$ CL for most operators, and the combination of the production and decay operators can be identified from the subsequent decay of the heavy neutrino. Also, the production operators can be identified using three-body $B$ meson decay for any $m_N$ if the $B\to D\ell N$ and $B\to D^*\ell N$ events can be well separated. |
| title | Right-handed Dirac and Majorana neutrinos at Belle II |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07029 |