Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−(π0)e+e+ decays

NA62 Collaboration; Thomas Bache; Maria Brigida Brunetti; Viacheslav Duk; Evgueni Goudzovski; Valeria Fascianelli; John Fry; Francesco Gonnella; Jack Henshaw; Lorenza Iacobuzio; Cristina Lazzeroni; Nicolas Lurkin; Francis Newson; Chris Parkinson; Angela Romano; Antonino Sergi; Andy Sturgess; Joel Swallow; Adam Tomczak

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137172

Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−(π0)e+e+ decays

NA62 Collaboration, Thomas Bache, Maria Brigida Brunetti, Viacheslav Duk, Evgueni Goudzovski^*, Valeria Fascianelli, John Fry, Francesco Gonnella, Jack Henshaw, Lorenza Iacobuzio, Cristina Lazzeroni, Nicolas Lurkin, Francis Newson, Chris Parkinson, Angela Romano, Antonino Sergi, Andy Sturgess, Joel Swallow, Adam Tomczak

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Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−e+e+ and K+ → π−π0e+e+ decays have been performed using the complete dataset collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2016–2018. Upper limits of 5.3 × 10−11 and 8.5 × 10−10 are obtained on the decay branching fractions at 90% confidence level. The former result improves by a factor of four over the previous best limit, while the latter result represents the first limit on the K+ → π−π0e+e+ decay rate.

Original language	English
Article number	137172
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	830
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137172
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2022

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NA62 Collaboration, Bache, T., Brunetti, M. B., Duk, V., Goudzovski, E., Fascianelli, V., Fry, J., Gonnella, F., Henshaw, J., Iacobuzio, L., Lazzeroni, C., Lurkin, N., Newson, F., Parkinson, C., Romano, A., Sergi, A., Sturgess, A., Swallow, J., & Tomczak, A. (2022). Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−(π0)e+e+ decays. Physics Letters B, 830, Article 137172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137172

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Searches for lepton number violating K+ → π−(π0)e+e+ decays

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