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Lepton Number Violation Higgs Decay at Muon Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-09-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the scalar singlet extension of type-I seesaw, where a scalar singlet SS and heavy neutral lepton NN are further introduced. The Majorana mass term of heavy neutral lepton is generated through the Yukawa interaction with the scalar singlet, which then induces the lepton number violation decays of SM Higgs hh and heavy Higgs HH via mixing of scalars. As a pathway to probe the origin of heavy neutral lepton mass, we investigate the lepton number violation Higgs decay signature at the TeV-scale muon collider. The dominant production channel of Higgs bosons at the TeV-scale muon collider is via vector boson fusion. So we perform a detailed analysis of the signal process μ+μνμνˉμh/HνμνˉμNN\mu^+\mu^-\to \nu_\mu \bar{\nu}_\mu h/H \to \nu_\mu \bar{\nu}_\mu NN followed by Nμ±jj N \to \mu^\pm jj, where the two jets from WW boson decay are treated as one fat-jet JJ. With an integrated luminosity of 1(10) ab11(10)~\text{ab}^{-1}, the 3 (10) TeV muon collider could discover the lepton number violation SM Higgs decay hμ±μ±JJh\to \mu^\pm\mu^\pm JJ signature for the Higgs mixing parameter sinα>0.05(0.009)\sin\alpha>0.05(0.009). Meanwhile, a large parameter space can be detected by the lepton number violation heavy Higgs decay Hμ±μ±JJH\to \mu^\pm\mu^\pm JJ signature for mH1(3)m_H\lesssim1 (3) TeV and sinα0.03(0.005)\sin\alpha\gtrsim0.03(0.005) at the 3 (10) TeV muon collider. Therefore, the lepton number violation SM and heavy Higgs decay signatures are both promising at the TeV scale muon collider.

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@article{arxiv.2505.07331,
  title  = {Lepton Number Violation Higgs Decay at Muon Collider},
  author = {Fa-Xin Yang and Feng-Lan Shao and Zhi-Long Han and Fei Huang and Yi Jin and Honglei Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.07331},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages, 10 figures

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