1. Search for heavy neutrinos in K + → μ + ν μ decays
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P. Rubin, Konrad Kleinknecht, E. Iacopini, P. F. Dalpiaz, A. I. Zinchenko, Fabrizio Petrucci, D. Coward, A. Salamon, G.M. Pierazzini, Leander Litov, H. D. Wahl, M. Serra, A. Gianoli, Evgueni Goudzovski, A. Fucci, S. Gallorini, Jürgen Engelfried, V. Bolotov, B. Hallgren, M. Fiorini, B. Peyaud, Petra Riedler, M. Lenti, Viacheslav Duk, E. Imbergamo, A. Peters, V K Semenov, A. Winhart, I. Mannelli, Mauro Piccini, D. Di Filippo, R. Fantechi, Simone Bifani, M. Savrie, V. Palladino, Rainer Wanke, N. A. Molokanova, Roberto Piandani, K. Eppard, Paolo Massarotti, C. Cerri, B. Bloch-Devaux, V. Kozhuharov, S. Venditti, H. O. Danielsson, L. Di Lella, M. Napolitano, M. Misheva, D. T. Madigozhin, Nicolas Lurkin, P. L. Frabetti, N. Doble, S. Balev, Vladimir Kekelidze, G. Lamanna, M. Moulson, S. Goy Lopez, Mauro Raggi, B. Renk, V. Obraztsov, Paolo Valente, A. Cotta Ramusino, A. Ceccucci, Andrea Bizzeti, T. Spadaro, V. Falaleev, G. Dellacasa, Yu. Potrebenikov, F. Newson, S. Movchan, C. Lazzeroni, F. Ambrosino, F. Costantini, Emilio Leonardi, S. Shkarovskiy, M. Hita-Hochgesand, F. Retiere, Antonino Sergi, Roberta Arcidiacono, E. Gushchin, Lau Gatignon, S. Giudici, P. Cenci, M. Sozzi, Evelina Gersabeck, Cristina Biino, O. Yushchenko, V. Kurshetsov, S. Kholodenko, W. Baldini, M. Veltri, G. Saracino, A. Norton, Roland Winston, G. Anzivino, G. Ruggiero, A. Romano, G. Collazuol, F. Marchetto, T. Numao, G. D'Agostini, M. Pepe, F. Bucci, A. Antonelli, A. A. Maier, Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Romano, A., Ceccucci, A., Danielsson, H., Falaleev, V., Gatignon, L., Goy Lopez, S., Hallgren, B., Maier, A., Peters, A., Piccini, M., Riedler, P., Frabetti, P. L., Gersabeck, E., Kekelidze, V., Madigozhin, D., Misheva, M., Molokanova, N., Movchan, S., Potrebenikov, Yu., Shkarovskiy, S., Zinchenko, A., Rubin, P., Baldini, W., Cotta Ramusino, A., Dalpiaz, P., Fiorini, M., Gianoli, A., Norton, A., Petrucci, F., Savrié, M., Wahl, H., Bizzeti, A., Bucci, F., Veltri, M., Iacopini, E., Lenti, M., Antonelli, A., Moulson, M., Raggi, M., Spadaro, T., Eppard, K., Hita-Hochgesand, M., Kleinknecht, K., Renk, B., Wanke, R., Winhart, A., Winston, R., Bolotov, V., Duk, V., Gushchin, E., Ambrosino, F., Di Filippo, D., Massarotti, P., Napolitano, M., Palladino, V., Saracino, G., Anzivino, G., Imbergamo, E., Piandani, R., Sergi, A., Cenci, P., Pepe, M., Costantini, F., Doble, N., Giudici, S., Pierazzini, G., Sozzi, M., Venditti, S., Balev, S., Collazuol, G., Di Lella, L., Gallorini, S., Goudzovski, E., Lamanna, G., Mannelli, I., Ruggiero, G., Cerri, C., Fantechi, R., Kholodenko, S., Kurshetsov, V., Obraztsov, V., Semenov, V., Yushchenko, O., D'Agostini, G., Leonardi, E., Serra, M., Valente, P., Fucci, A., Salamon, A., Bloch-Devaux, B., Peyaud, B., Engelfried, J., Coward, D., Kozhuharov, V., Litov, L., Arcidiacono, R., Bifani, S., Biino, C., Dellacasa, G., Marchetto, F., Numao, T., and Retière, F.
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Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Particle physics ,Muon ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Physics beyond the Standard Model ,Heavy neutrino ,NA62 experiment ,01 natural sciences ,lcsh:QC1-999 ,Heavy neutrinos ,Kaon decays ,Nuclear physics ,Kaon decay ,0103 physical sciences ,Mass spectrum ,Neutrino ,010306 general physics ,lcsh:Physics ,Mixing (physics) - Abstract
The NA62 experiment recorded a large sample of K+→μ+νμ decays in 2007. A peak search has been performed in the reconstructed missing mass spectrum. In the absence of a signal, limits in the range 2×10−6 to 10−5 have been set on the squared mixing matrix element |Uμ4|2 between muon and heavy neutrino states, for heavy neutrino masses in the range 300–375 MeV/ c2 . The result extends the range of masses for which upper limits have been set on the value of |Uμ4|2 in previous production search experiments.
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- 2017