Young Scientists Meeting of the CRC TRR 257

Heavy sterile Neutrinos from B decays and new QCD corrections to their semi-hadronic decay rates

Sep 26, 2024, 11:30 AM

25m

EBI Hörsaal (KIT)

Young Scientist Talks

Speaker

Mr Tim Kretz (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT - TTP))

Description

In modern experiments on flavour physics it is possible to search for the decays of $B$’s, $D$’s, or $\tau$’s into final states with heavy neutrinos $N$ (a.k.a. heavy neutral leptons). I present a common study of theorists and experimentalists from Belle II on constraints on $B\to D^{\ast }\ell N$. Next I discuss the status of the theory predictions of the various $N$ decay rates. In scenarios in which $N$ interacts with SM particles only through sterile-active neutrino mixing, the dependence of
the lifetime on the relevant mixing angles is important to determine whether $N$ decays in the detector or outside. To calculate the inclusive decay rate into semi-hadronic final states reliably one needs to include radiative QCD corrections. I present analytic results for the QCD-corrected decay rates and discuss their phenomenological impact.

Presentation materials

CRCKretz26092024.pdf