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Sterile neutrinos facing kaon physics experiments

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We discuss weak kaon decays in a scenario in which the Standard Model is extended by massive sterile fermions. After revisiting the analytical expressions for leptonic and semileptonic decays we derive the expressions for decay rates with two neutrinos in the final state. By using a simple effective model with only one sterile neutrino, compatible with all current experimental bounds and general theoretical constraints, we conduct a thorough numerical analysis which reveals that the impact of the presence of massive sterile neutrinos on kaon weak decays is very small, less than 1% on decay rates. The only exception is B(KL→νν), which can go up to O(10-10), thus possibly within the reach of the KOTO, NA62 and SHIP experiments. Plans have also been proposed to search for this decay at the NA64 experiment. In other words, if all the future measurements of weak kaon decays turn out to be compatible with the Standard Model predictions, this will not rule out the existence of massive light sterile neutrinos with non-negligible active-sterile mixing. Instead, for a sterile neutrino of mass below mK, one might obtain a huge enhancement of B(KL→νν), otherwise negligibly small in the Standard Model.

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hal-01554645 , version 1 (03-07-2017)

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Asmaa Abada, Damir Bečirević, Olcyr Sumensari, Cedric Weiland, Renata Zukanovich Funchal. Sterile neutrinos facing kaon physics experiments. Phys.Rev.D, 2017, 95 (7), pp.075023. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.95.075023⟩. ⟨hal-01554645⟩
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