Monday, February 25, 2013

1302.5539 (A. Vicente)

Sterile neutrinos and $R_K$    [PDF]

A. Vicente
We study the violation of lepton flavour universality in light meson decays due to the presence of non-zero mixings between the active neutrinos with new sterile states. The modified $W \ell \nu$ vertices, arising from a non-unitarity leptonic mixing matrix intervening in charged currents, might lead to a tree-level enhancement of $R_{P} = \Gamma (P \to e \nu) / \Gamma (P \to \mu \nu)$, with $P=K, \pi$. These enhancements are illustrated in the case of the inverse seesaw, showing that one can saturate the current experimental bounds on $\Delta r_{K}$ (and $\Delta r_{\pi}$), while in agreement with the different experimental and observational constraints.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5539

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