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Heavy Neutral Leptons at Muon Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-19 v2

Abstract

The future high-energy muon colliders, featuring both high energy and low background, could play a critical role in our searches for new physics. The smallness of neutrino mass is a puzzle of particle physics. Broad classes of solutions to the neutrino puzzles can be best tested by seeking the partners of SM light neutrinos, dubbed as heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), at muon colliders. We can parametrize HNLs in terms of the mass mNm_N and the mixing angle with \ell-flavor UU_\ell. In this work, we focus on the regime mN>O(100)m_N > O(100) GeV and study the projected sensitivities on the U2mN|U_\ell|^2 - m_N plane with the full-reconstructable HNL decay into a hadronic WW and a charged lepton. The projected reach in U2|U_\ell|^2 leads to the best sensitivities in the TeV realm.

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@article{arxiv.2301.07117,
  title  = {Heavy Neutral Leptons at Muon Colliders},
  author = {Peiran Li and Zhen Liu and Kun-Feng Lyu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07117},
  year   = {2023}
}

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33 pages, 10 figures

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