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Discovering neutrino tridents at the Large Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Neutrino trident production of di-lepton pairs is well recognized as a sensitive probe of both electroweak physics and physics beyond the Standard Model. Although a rare process, it could be significantly boosted by such new physics, and it also allows the electroweak theory to be tested in a new regime. We demonstrate that the forward neutrino physics program at the Large Hadron Collider offers a promising opportunity to measure for the first time, dimuon neutrino tridents with a statistical significance exceeding 5σ5\sigma. We present predictions for various proposed experiments and outline a specific experimental strategy to identify the signal and mitigate backgrounds, based on "reverse tracking" dimuon pairs in the FASERν\nu2 detector. We also discuss prospects for constraining beyond Standard Model contributions to neutrino trident rates at high energies.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16803,
  title  = {Discovering neutrino tridents at the Large Hadron Collider},
  author = {Wolfgang Altmannshofer and Toni Mäkelä and Subir Sarkar and Sebastian Trojanowski and Keping Xie and Bei Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16803},
  year   = {2024}
}

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19 pages, 11 figures