Light Majorana neutrinos in (semi)invisible meson decays

Abstract

AbstractWe reconsider decays of pseudoscalar mesons (P) to neutrino pairs and possibly additional photons in presence of (light) Majorana neutrinos. For this purpose we derive a model-independent general parametrization of neutrino mass matrices with physically interpretable and irreducible set of parameters. The parametrization is valid for any number of neutrinos and interpolates smoothly between the heavy Majorana and the (pseudo)Dirac neutrino limits. We apply the new parametrization to the study of $$P \rightarrow \nu \nu $$ P → ν ν and $$P \rightarrow \nu \nu \gamma $$ P → ν ν γ decays within the SM extended by additional singlet fermions. We update the SM predictions for the branching ratios of $$B_{s,d} \rightarrow \nu \nu \gamma $$ B s , d → ν ν γ and discuss the sensitivity of the $$B_{s,d} \rightarrow E_{\mathrm{miss}} (\gamma )$$ B s , d → E miss ( γ ) decays to neutrino mass and mixing parameters.