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Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons and Higgs portal scalars decaying in the MicroBooNE detector
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Working Paper
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MicroBooNE collaboration; Abratenko, P.; Anthony, J.; Arellano, L.; Asaadi, J.; Ashkenazi, A.; Balasubramanian, S.; Baller, B.; Barnes, C.; Barr, G.; Barrow, J.; Basque, V.; Bathe-Peters, L.; Rodrigues, O. Benevides; Berkman, S.; Bhanderi, A.; Bhattacharya, M.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Bogart, B.; Bolton, T.; Book, J. Y.; Camilleri, L.; Caratelli, D.; Terrazas, I. Caro; Cavanna, F.; Cerati, G.; Chen, Y.; Conrad, J. M.; Convery, M.; Cooper-Troendle, L.; Crespo-Anadon, J. I.; Del Tutto, M.; Dennis, S. R.; Detje, P.; Devitt, A.; Diurba, R.; Dorrill, R.; Duffy, K.; Dytman, S.; Eberly, B.; Ereditato, A.; Evans, J. J.; Fine, R.; Finnerud, O. G.; Fleming, B. T.; Foppiani, N.; Foreman, W.; Franco, D.; Furmanski, A. P.; Garcia-Gamez, D.; Gardiner, S.; Ge, G.; Gollapinni, S.; Goodwin, O.; Gramellini, E.; Green, P.; Greenlee, H.; Gu, W.; Guenette, R.; Guzowski, P.; Hagaman, L.; Hen, O.; Hicks, R.; Hilgenberg, C.; Horton-Smith, G. A.; Itay, R.; James, C.; Ji, X.; Jiang, L.; Jo, J. H.; Johnson, R. A.; Jwa, Y. J.; Kalra, D.; Kamp, N.; Kaneshige, N.; Karagiorgi, G.; Ketchum, W.; Kirby, M.; Kobilarcik, T.; Kreslo, I.; Leibovitch, M. B.; Lepetic, I.; Li, J. -Y.; Li, K.; Li, Y.; Lin, K.; Littlejohn, B. R.; Louis, W. C.; Luo, X.; Manivannan, K.; Mariani, C.; Marsden, D.; Marshall, J.; Caicedo, D. A. Martinez; Mason, K.; Mastbaum, A.; McConkey, N.; Meddage, V.; Miller, K.; Mills, J.; Mistry, K.; Mohayai, T.; Mogan, A.; Mooney, M.; Moor, A. F.; Moore, C. D.; Lepin, L. Mora; Mousseau, J.; Babu, S. Mulleria; Naples, D.; Navrer-Agasson, A.; Nayak, N.; Nebot-Guinot, M.; Newmark, D. A.; Nowak, J.; Nunes, M.; Oza, N.; Palamara, O.; Pallat, N.; Paolone, V.; Papadopoulou, A.; Papavassiliou, V.; Parkinson, H.; Pate, S. F.; Patel, N.; Pavlovic, Z.; Piasetzky, E.; Ponce-Pinto, I.; Prince, S.; Qian, X.; Raaf, J. L.; Radeka, V.; Rafique, A.; Reggiani-Guzzo, M.; Ren, L.; Rice, L. C. J.; Rochester, L.; Rondon, J. Rodriguez; Rosenberg, M.; Ross-Lonergan, M.; von Rohr, C. Rudolph; Scanavini, G.; Schmitz, D. W.; Schukraft, A.; Seligman, W.; Shaevitz, M. H.; Sharankova, R.; Shi, J.; Smith, A.; Snider, E. L.; Soderberg, M.; Soldner-Rembold, S.; Spitz, J.; Stancari, M.; John, J. St.; Strauss, T.; Sword-Fehlberg, S.; Szelc, A. M.; Tang, W.; Taniuchi, N.; Terao, K.; Thorpe, C.; Torbunov, D.; Totani, D.; Toups, M.; Tsai, Y. -T.; Tyler, J.; Uchida, M. A.; Usher, T.; Viren, B.; Weber, M.; Wei, H.; White, A. J.; Williams, Z.; Wolbers, S.; Wongjirad, T.; Wospakrik, M.; Wresilo, K.; Wright, N.; Wu, W.; Yandel, E.; Yang, T.; Yates, L. E.; Yu, H. W.; Zeller, G. P.; Zennamo, J.; Zhang, C.
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Phys. Rev. D 106, 092006 (2022)
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Abstract
We present a search for long-lived Higgs portal scalars (HPS) and heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying in the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber. The measurement is performed using data collected synchronously with the NuMI neutrino beam from Fermilab's Main Injector with a total exposure corresponding to $7.01 \times 10^{20}$ protons on target. We set upper limits at the $90\%$ confidence level on the mixing parameter $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2$ ranging from $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2<12.9\times 10^{-8}$ for Majorana HNLs with a mass of $m_{\rm HNL}=246$ MeV to $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2<0.92 \times 10^{-8}$ for $m_{\rm HNL}=385$ MeV, assuming $\lvert U_{e 4}\rvert^2 = \lvert U_{\tau 4}\rvert^2 = 0$ and HNL decays into $\mu^\pm\pi^\mp$ pairs. These limits on $\lvert U_{\mu 4}\rvert^2$ represent an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared to the previous MicroBooNE result. We also constrain the scalar-Higgs mixing angle $\theta$ by searching for HPS decays into $\mu^+\mu^-$ final states, excluding a contour in the parameter space with lower bounds of $\theta^2<31.3 \times 10^{-9}$ for $m_{\rm HPS}=212$ GeV and $\theta^2<1.09 \times 10^{-9}$ for $m_{\rm HPS}=275$ GeV. These are the first constraints on the scalar-Higgs mixing angle $\theta$ from a dedicated experimental search in this mass range.
Comment: This paper is dedicated to the memory of Salvatore Davide Porzio. This is the journal accepted version with only minor presentational changes compared to preprint
Comment: This paper is dedicated to the memory of Salvatore Davide Porzio. This is the journal accepted version with only minor presentational changes compared to preprint