Search for lepton flavor violating decays of a heavy neutral particle in p-pbar collisions at root(s)=1.8 TeV

TL;DR

This paper reports a search for high-mass particles decaying into different lepton flavors in proton-antiproton collisions, setting limits on sneutrino production with R-parity violation.

Contribution

It introduces a search for lepton flavor violating decays of a heavy neutral particle using Fermilab data, providing new constraints on sneutrino models.

Findings

No evidence of lepton flavor violating decays found.

Limits set on sneutrino production with R-parity violating interactions.

Abstract

We report on a search for a high mass, narrow width particle that decays directly to e+mu, e+tau, or mu+tau. We use approximately 110 pb^-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab from 1992 to 1995. No evidence of lepton flavor violating decays is found. Limits are set on the production and decay of sneutrinos with R-parity violating interactions.