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A high statistics data sample of the $K^{+}tomu^{+} u_{mu}$ decay was accumulated by the OKA experiment in 2012. The missing mass analysis was performed to search for the decay channel $K^{+}tomu^{+} u_{H}$ with a hypothetic stable heavy neutrino in the final state. The obtained missing mass spectrum does not show peaks which could be attributed to existence of stable heavy neutrinos in the mass range (220 $< m_{ u_{H}} <$ 375) MeV$/c^{2}$. As a result, we obtain upper limits on the branching ratio and on the value of the mixing element $|U_{mu H}|^{2}$.
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We observe a net beam-excess of $8.7 pm 6.3$ (stat) $pm 2.4$ (syst) events, above 160 MeV, resulting from the charged-current reaction of $ u_{mu}$ and/or $bar u_{mu}$ on C and H in the LSND detector. No beam related muon background is expected in this energy regime. Within an analysis framework of $pi^0 to u_{mu}bar u_{mu}$, we set a direct upper limit for this branching ratio of $Gamma(pi^0 to u_mu bar u_mu) / Gamma(pi^0 to all) < 1.6 times 10^{-6}$ at 90% confidence level.
Heavy neutrino nu_h with m_h < 300MeV/c^2 can be effectively searched for in kaon decays. We put upper limits on mixing matrix element |U_mu_h}|^2 for radiatively decaying nu_h from K->mu nu_h (nu_h -> nu gamma) decay chain in the following parameter region: 30MeV/c^2 < m_h < 80MeV/c^2; 10^{-11}sec < tau_h < 10^{-9}sec. For the whole region |U_{mu h}|^2 < 5 x 10^{-5} for Majorana type of nu_h and | U_{mu h}|^2 < 8 x 10^{-5} for the Dirac case.
Heavy neutrinos were sought in pion decays $pi^+ rightarrow mu^+ u$ by examining the observed muon energy spectrum for extra peaks in addition to the expected peak for a massless neutrino. No evidence for heavy neutrinos was observed. Upper limits were set on the neutrino mixing matrix $|U_{mu i}|^2$ in the neutrino mass region of 15.7--33.8 MeV/c$^2$, improving on previous results by an order of magnitude.
A precise measurement of the vector and axial-vector form factors difference $F_V-F_A$ in the $K^+rightarrow{mu^+}{ u_{mu}}{gamma}$ decay is presented. About 95K events of $K^+rightarrow{mu^+}{ u_{mu}}{gamma}$ are selected in the OKA experiment. The result is $F_V-F_A=0.134pm0.021(stat)pm0.027(syst)$. Both errors are smaller than in the previous $F_V-F_A$ measurements.
The Cabibbo-suppressed semileptonic decay $B^{+}to poverline{p}mu^{+} u_{mu}$ is observed for the first time using a sample of $pp$ collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0, 2.0 and 1.7fb$^{-1}$ at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13TeV, respectively. The differential branching fraction is measured as a function of the $poverline{p}$ invariant mass using the decay mode $B^{+}to J/psi K^{+}$ for normalisation. The total branching fraction is measured to be begin{align*} mathcal{B}(B^{+}to poverline{p}mu^{+} u_{mu}) = (5.27 ^{+0.23}_{-0.24} pm 0.21 pm 0.15)times 10^{-6}, end{align*} where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third is from the uncertainty on the branching fraction of the normalisation channel.
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