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Extra dimensions and Seesaw Neutrinos at the International Linear Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We study the capability of the international linear collider (ILC) to probe extra dimensions via the seesaw mechanism. In the scenario we study, heavy Kaluza-Klein neutrinos generate tiny neutrino masses and, at the same time, have sizable couplings to the standard-model particles. Consequently, a Kaluza-Klein tower of heavy neutrinos (N) can be produced and studied at the ILC through the process: e+e- -> vN followed by N -> Wl decay. We show that the single lepton plus two-jets final states with large missing energy from this signal process will provide a good opportunity to measure the masses and cross sections of Kaluza-Klein neutrinos up to the third level. Furthermore, the neutrino oscillation parameters can be extracted from the flavor dependence of the lowest-mode signals, which give us information about the origin of low-energy neutrino masses.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2257,
  title  = {Extra dimensions and Seesaw Neutrinos at the International Linear Collider},
  author = {Tomoyuki Saito and Masaki Asano and Keisuke Fujii and Naoyuki Haba and Shigeki Matsumoto and Takehiro Nabeshima and Yosuke Takubo and Hitoshi Yamamoto and Koichi Yoshioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2257},
  year   = {2010}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures, 7 tables