Could SBND-PRISM probe Lepton Flavor Violation?
Abstract: We investigate the possibility of using the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermilab to constrain lepton flavor violating decays of pions and kaons. We study how to leverage SBND-PRISM, the use of the neutrino beam angular spread to mitigate systematic uncertainties, to enhance this analysis. We show that SBND-PRISM can put stringent limits on the flavor violating branching ratios $\rm{BR}(\pi+ \to \mu+ \nu_e) = 8.9 \times 10{-4}$, $\rm{BR}(K+ \to \mu+ \nu_e) = 3.2 \times 10{-3}$, improving previous constraints by factors 9 and 1.25, respectively. We also estimate the SBND-PRISM sensitivity to lepton number violating decays, $\rm{BR}(\pi+ \to \mu+ \overline{\nu}_e)= 2.1 \times 10{-3}$ and $\rm{BR}(K+ \to \mu+ \overline{\nu}_e) = 7.4 \times 10{-3}$, though not reaching previous BEBC limits. Last, we identify several ways how the SBND collaboration could improve this analysis.
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