English

Heavy neutrino searches at the LHC with displaced vertices

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Sterile neutrinos with masses in the range (1-100) GeV, have been searched for in a variety of experiments. Here, we discuss the prospects to search for sterile neutrinos at the LHC using displaced vertices. Two different cases are discussed: (i) the standard model extended with sterile neutrinos and (ii) right-handed neutrinos in a left-right symmetric extension of the standard model. A dedicated displaced vertex search will allow to probe parts of the parameter space not accessible to other searches, but will require large luminosity in both cases.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1312.2900,
  title  = {Heavy neutrino searches at the LHC with displaced vertices},
  author = {Juan Helo and Martin Hirsch and Sergey Kovalenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2900},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures