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Beautiful Majorana Higgses at Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-07 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate a novel collider signature within the minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model, featuring a Higgs sector composed of a bi-doublet and two triplets. Our study focuses on a region of the parameter space where the SU(2)RSU(2)_R charged gauge boson WRW_R lies in the multi-TeV regime (3-100 TeV) and the additional Higgs states play a significant role. In this scenario, a heavy neutral Higgs boson Δ\Delta with a dominant SU(2)RSU(2)_R triplet component can be produced in association with either a Standard Model Higgs boson or a massive weak boson. The subsequent decay of the heavy Higgs into Majorana neutrinos NN results in displaced lepton signatures, providing a striking manifestation of lepton number violation. Additionally, we explore how the production of bb-jets in these processes can enhance hadron-collider sensitivity to such signals. A particularly compelling channel, ppbbˉNNpp \to b \bar b NN, offers the exciting possibility of simultaneously probing the spontaneous mass origin of both Dirac fermions and Majorana states. Based on an optimised event selection strategy and state-of-the-art Monte Carlo simulations, we outline the expected reach at the HL-LHC and future colliders. Our findings demonstrate that this channel probes a region of parameter space where the neutral Higgs triplet and heavy neutrino masses are relatively light (mΔ250m_\Delta \lesssim 250 GeV, mN80m_N \lesssim 80 GeV), indirectly constraining the WRW_R boson to the deep multi-TeV domain, with sensitivity extending up to 70-80 TeV, effectively turning the LHC into a precision machine.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21354,
  title  = {Beautiful Majorana Higgses at Colliders},
  author = {Benjamin Fuks and Jonathan Kriewald and Miha Nemevšek and Fabrizio Nesti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21354},
  year   = {2025}
}

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36 pages, 13 figures, v2: references updated