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Majorana Higgses at colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-05-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Collider signals of heavy Majorana neutrino mass origin are studied in the minimal Left-Right symmetric model, where their mass is generated spontaneously together with the breaking of lepton number. The right-handed triplet Higgs boson Δ\Delta, responsible for such breaking, can be copiously produced at the LHC through the Higgs portal in the gluon fusion and less so in gauge mediated channels. At Δ\Delta masses below the opening of the VVVV decay channel, the two observable modes are pair-production of heavy neutrinos via the triplet gluon fusion ggΔNNgg \to \Delta \to NN and pair production of triplets from the Higgs hΔΔ4Nh \to \Delta \Delta \to 4N decay. The latter features tri- and quad same-sign lepton final states that break lepton number by four units and have no significant background. In both cases up to four displaced vertices may be present and their displacement may serve as a discriminating variable. The backgrounds at the LHC, including the jet fake rate, are estimated and the resulting sensitivity to the Left-Right breaking scale extends well beyond 10 TeV. In addition, sub-dominant radiative modes are surveyed: the γγ\gamma \gamma, ZγZ \gamma and lepton flavour violating ones. Finally, prospects for Δ\Delta signals at future e+ee^+ e^- colliders are presented.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06840,
  title  = {Majorana Higgses at colliders},
  author = {Miha Nemevšek and Fabrizio Nesti and Juan Carlos Vasquez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06840},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

30 pages, 12 figures. v2: added clarifications and discussion on event selection, displacement, backgrounds; updated figures and added references, version as accepted in JHEP

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