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Displaced Heavy Neutral Lepton from New Higgs Doublet

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-06-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Heavy neutral leptons NN are introduced to explain the tiny neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. For proper small mixing parameter VNV_{\ell N}, the heavy neutral leptons NN become long-lived, which leads to the displaced vertex signature at colliders. In this paper, we consider the displaced heavy neutral lepton from the neutrinophilic Higgs doublet Φν\Phi_\nu decay. The new Higgs doublet with MeV scale VEV can naturally explain the tiny neutrino masses with TeV scale NN. Different from current experimental searches via the W±±NW^\pm\to \ell^\pm N decay, the new decays as H±±NH^\pm\to \ell^\pm N are not suppressed by the small mixing parameter VNV_{\ell N}. Therefore, a larger parameter space is expected to be detected at colliders. We then investigate the promising region at the 14 TeV HL-LHC and the 3 TeV CLIC. According to our simulation, the DV signature could probe VN21019|V_{\ell N}|^2\gtrsim10^{-19} with mN<mH+m_N<m_{H^+}, which covers the seesaw predicted value VN2mν/mN|V_{\ell N}|^2\sim m_\nu/m_N. We could probe mH+1200m_{H^+}\lesssim1200 GeV at the 14 TeV HL-LHC and mH+1490m_{H^+}\lesssim1490 GeV at the 3 TeV CLIC.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16269,
  title  = {Displaced Heavy Neutral Lepton from New Higgs Doublet},
  author = {Fa-Xin Yang and Feng-Lan Shao and Zhi-Long Han and Yi Jin and Honglei Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16269},
  year   = {2024}
}

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24 pages, 11 figures

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