Search for heavy neutral leptons in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si1.svg"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>π</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msup> </mml:math> decays to positrons
B. Bloch-Devaux, E. Cortina Gil, N. Lurkin, E. Minucci et autres
A search for heavy neutral lepton (N) production in π+→e+N in-flight decays using data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017–2024 is reported. Upper limits for the extended neutrino mixing matrix element |Ue4|2 are established at the level of 10−8 …