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Exploring collider aspects of a neutrinophilic Higgs doublet model in multilepton channels

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-03-07 v2

Abstract

We consider a neutrinophilic Higgs scenario where the Standard Model is extended by one additional Higgs doublet and three generations of singlet right-handed Majorana neutrinos. Light neutrino masses are generated through mixing with the heavy neutrinos via Type-I seesaw mechanism when the neutrinophilic Higgs gets a vacuum expectation value (VEV). The Dirac neutrino Yukawa coupling in this scenario can be sizable compared to those in the canonical Type-I seesaw mechanism owing to the small neutrinophilic Higgs VEV giving rise to interesting phenomenological consequences. We have explored various signal regions likely to provide a hint of such a scenario at the LHC as well as at future e+ee^+e^- colliders. We have also highlighted the consequences of light neutrino mass hierarchies in collider phenomenology that can complement the findings of neutrino oscillation experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00338,
  title  = {Exploring collider aspects of a neutrinophilic Higgs doublet model in multilepton channels},
  author = {Katri Huitu and Timo J. Kärkkäinen and Subhadeep Mondal and Santosh Kumar Rai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00338},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

31 pages, 8 figues, 5 tables, Accepted for publication in PRD