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Heavy neutral leptons below the kaon mass at hodoscopic detectors
Carlos A. Argüelles, Nicolò Foppiani, Matheus Hostert
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Heavy neutral leptons (N) below the kaon mass are severely constrained by cosmology and lab-based searches for their decays in flight. If N interacts via an additional force, N→νe^+e^- decays are enhanced and cosmological limits can be avoided. We show that the T2K and MicroBooNE neutrino experiments provide the best limits on the mixing of N with muon-neutrinos, outperforming past-generation experiments, previously thought to dominate. We constrain models with electromagnetically-decaying and long-lived N, such as in a transition-magnetic-moment portal and in a leptophilic axion-like particle portal, invoked to explain the MiniBooNE excess. By considering these models as representative examples, our results show that explanations of the MiniBooNE excess that involve e^+e^- pairs from long-lived particles are in tension with T2K, PS191, and MicroBooNE data. Similarly, these searches also constrain MiniBooNE explanations based on single photons due to the associated e^+e^- decay mode via a virtual photon.
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