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Lepton Number Violating Processes Mediated by Majorana Neutrinos at Hadron Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-05 v1

Abstract

We study the Lepton number violating like-sign dilepton processes h1h2l±l±jjXh_1 h_2 \to l^\pm l^{\prime \pm} jj X and h1h2l±l±W±Xh_1 h_2 \to l^\pm l^{\prime \pm} W^\pm X, mediated by heavy GeV scale Majorana neutrinos. We focus on the resonantly enhanced contributions with a nearly on-mass-shell Majorana neutrino in the s-channel. We study the constraints on like-sign dilepton production at the Tevatron and the LHC on the basis of the existing experimental limits on the masses of heavy neutrinos and their mixings UαNU_{\alpha N} with α=νe,νμ,ντ\alpha = \nu_{e}, \nu_{\mu}, \nu_{\tau}. Special attention is paid to the constraints from neutrinoless double beta decay. We note that searches for like-sign e±e±e^{\pm} e^{\pm} events at Tevatron and LHC may shed light on CP-violation in neutrino sector. We also discuss the conditions under which it is possible to extract individual constraints on the mixing matrix elements in a model independent way.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2533,
  title  = {Lepton Number Violating Processes Mediated by Majorana Neutrinos at Hadron Colliders},
  author = {Sergey Kovalenko and Zhun Lu and Ivan Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2533},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages,6 figures