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Probing the Decoupled Seesaw Scalar in Rare Higgs Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Higgs boson can mix with a singlet scalar that dynamically generates the Majorana mass of the right-handed neutrino NRN_R. We show that even a tiny mixing between the Higgs boson and a `decoupled' singlet scalar allows for Higgs-mediated pair production of NRN_R without significant mixings between the active neutrinos and NRN_R, and thus testable at colliders via a characteristic signal of two same-sign same-flavor lepton pairs, plus missing energy. We demonstrate that this search channel is mostly background-free in pppp-collision and can be a highly sensitive probe of the Higgs-singlet mixing at the current and future pppp colliders. Such channel provides a clean signal to discover the singlet scalar and explore the origin of neutrino masses.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12325,
  title  = {Probing the Decoupled Seesaw Scalar in Rare Higgs Decay},
  author = {Yu Gao and Mingjie Jin and Kechen Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12325},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables