Search for heavy neutral leptons in B-meson decays

A bstract A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons produced in B-meson decays and decaying to a μ ± π ∓ final state is performed with data collected by the LHCb experiment in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb − 1 . The results are interpreted in both lepton-number-conserving and lepton-number-violating scenarios. No significant excess is observed. Constraints are placed on the squared mixing element | U μN | 2 to the active muon neutrino, under the assumption that couplings to other lepton flavours are negligible, in the mass range of 1 . 6–5 . 5 GeV.