Discovering heavy neutrino oscillations in rare Bc meson decays at HL-LHCb

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to observe heavy neutrino oscillations in rare Bc meson decays at HL-LHCb, focusing on lepton flavor and number violation mediated by on-shell Majorana neutrinos within a specific mass range.

Contribution

It introduces a method to detect heavy neutrino oscillations through decay width modulation in Bc meson decays at future collider experiments.

Findings

Decay width modulation could be measurable at HL-LHCb.

Heavy neutrino oscillations are detectable within the 2-6 GeV mass range.

Potential observation of lepton flavor violation in Bc decays.

Abstract

In this work, we study the lepton flavor and lepton number violating $B_{c}$ meson decays via two intermediate on-shell Majorana neutrinos $N_j$ into two charged leptons and a charged pion $B_{c}^{\pm} \to \mu^{\pm} \ N_j \to \mu^{\pm} \tau^{\pm} \pi^{\mp}$. We evaluated the possibility to measure the modulation of the decay width along the detector length produced as a consequence of the lepton flavor violating process, in a scenario where the heavy neutrinos masses range between $2.0$ GeV $\leq M_N \leq 6.0$ GeV. We study some realistic conditions which could lead to the observation of this phenomenon at futures $B$ factories such HL-LHCb.