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Leptonic Scalars and Collider Signatures in a UV-complete Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-04-28 v2

Abstract

We study the non-standard interactions of neutrinos with light leptonic scalars (ϕ\phi) in a global (BL)(B-L)-conserved ultraviolet (UV)-complete model. The model utilizes Type-II seesaw motivated neutrino interactions with an SU(2)LSU(2)_L-triplet scalar, along with an additional singlet in the scalar sector. This UV-completion leads to an enriched spectrum and consequently new observable signatures. We examine the low-energy lepton flavor violation constraints, as well as the perturbativity and unitarity constraints on the model parameters. Then we lay out a search strategy for the unique signature of the model resulting from the leptonic scalars at the hadron colliders via the processes H±±W±W±ϕH^{\pm\pm} \to W^\pm W^\pm \phi and H±W±ϕH^\pm \to W^\pm \phi for both small and large leptonic Yukawa coupling cases. We find that via these associated production processes at the HL-LHC, the prospects of doubly-charged scalar H±±H^{\pm\pm} can reach up to 800 (500) GeV and 1.1 (0.8) TeV at the 2σ (5σ)2\sigma \ (5\sigma) significance for small and large Yukawa couplings, respectively. A future 100 TeV hadron collider will further increase the mass reaches up to 3.8 (2.6) TeV and 4 (2.7) TeV, at the 2σ (5σ)2\sigma \ (5\sigma) significance, respectively. We also demonstrate that the mass of ϕ\phi can be determined at about 10% accuracy at the LHC for the large Yukawa coupling case even though it escapes as missing energy from the detectors.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.04490,
  title  = {Leptonic Scalars and Collider Signatures in a UV-complete Model},
  author = {P. S. Bhupal Dev and Bhaskar Dutta and Tathagata Ghosh and Tao Han and Han Qin and Yongchao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.04490},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

47 pages, 11 tables, 13 figures; one more subsection added for the intermediate Yukawa coupling scenario; other minor changes and more references; version published in JHEP

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