Is there any evidence for a heavy neutral fermion ()?
- 10 June 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 66 (23) , 2943-2946
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.2943
Abstract
In the standard model a right-handed neutrino can appear only by mixing with the left-handed neutrinos. Precise electroweak data constrain this mixing. We consider models in which the mixing is not proportional to neutrino masses. We have analyzed data and constraints on , with and without mixing (sinε) of neutrinos with new inert fermions. For universal ν mixing, sinε=0.09; if only mixes, sin=0.22. Thus data, Γτ and , if interpreted without caution, perhaps favor a nonzero mixing and the existence of heavy neutral fermions.
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