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Heavy Neutrinos and Lepton Number Violation in lp Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-01-14 v1

Abstract

We discuss the prospects of studying lepton number violating processes in order to identify Majorana neutrinos from low scale seesaw mechanisms at lepton-proton colliders. In particular, we consider the scenarios of colliding electrons with LHC energy protons and, motivated by the efforts towards the construction of a muon collider, the prospects of muon-proton collisions. We find that present constraints on the mixing of the Majorana neutrinos still allow for a detectable signal at these kind of facilities given the smallness of the Standard Model background. We discuss possible cuts in order to further increase the signal over background ratio and the prospects of reconstructing the neutrino mass from the kinematics of the final state particles.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0308,
  title  = {Heavy Neutrinos and Lepton Number Violation in lp Colliders},
  author = {Carl Blaksley and Mattias Blennow and Florian Bonnet and Pilar Coloma and Enrique Fernandez-Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0308},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures, REVTeX4