Search for Neutral Heavy Leptons in a High-Energy Neutrino Beam
Abstract
A search for neutral heavy leptons (NHLs) has been performed using an instrumented decay channel at the NuTeV (E-815) experiment at Fermilab. The data were examined for NHLs decaying into muonic final states ( μμν, μeν, μπ, and μρ) no evidence has been found for NHLs in the 0.25-2.0 GeV mass range. This analysis places limits on the mixing of NHLs with standard light neutrinos at a level up to an order of magnitude more restrictive than previous search limits in this mass range.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- December 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4943
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ex/9908011
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvL..83.4943V
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 5 pages