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Search for the lepton number violation decay $\textit{ϕ}$ → $\textit{π}$ $^{+}$ $\textit{π}$ $^{+}$ $\textit{e}$ $^{−}$ $\textit{e}$ $^{−}$ via $\textit{J}$/$\textit{ψ}$ → $\textit{ϕη}$ * The BESIII Collaboration appreciates the staff of BEPCII and the IHEP Computing Center for their strong support. This work is supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China (2020YFA0406300, 2020YFA0406400); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (12035009, 11635010, 11735014, 11835012, 11935015, 11935016, 11935018, 11961141012, 12025502, 12035013, 12061131003, 12192260, 12192261, 12192262, 12192263, 12192264, 12192265, 12221005, 12225509, 12235017); the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS (U1832207); CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (QYZDJ-SSW-SLH003, QYZDJ-SSW-SLH040); 100 Talents Program of CAS; the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPAC) and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement (894790); the German Research Foundation DFG (455635585), the Collaborative Research Center CRC 1044, FOR5327, GRK 2149; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2021.0174, 2021.0299); Ministry of Development of Turkey (DPT2006K-120470); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2022R1A2C1092335); National Science and Technology Fund of Mongolia; National Science Research and Innovation Fund (NSRF) via the Program Management Unit for Human Resources & Institutional Development, Research and Innovation of Thailand (B16F640076); Polish National Science Centre (2019/35/O/ST2/02907); Swedish Research Council (2019.04595); the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (CH2018-7756); and the U. S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-05ER41374).

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Using an electron-positron collision data sample corresponding to $ (1.0087\pm0.0044)\times10^{10} $ $ J/\psi $ events collected using the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we firstly search for the lepton number violation decay $ \phi \to \pi^+ \pi^+ e^- e^- $ via $ J/\psi\to \phi\eta $ . No obviously signals are found. The upper limit on the branching fraction of $ \phi \to \pi^+ \pi^+ e^- e^- $ is set to be $ 1.3\times10^{-5} $ at the 90% confidence level.

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