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Rare Lepton-Number-Violating $W$ Decays at the LHC: CP Violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-04-27 v1

Abstract

Some models of leptogenesis involve a nearly-degenerate pair of heavy Majorana neutrinos N1,2N_{1,2} whose masses can be small, O(GeV)O({\rm GeV}). There can be heavy-light neutrino mixing parametrized by BN2=105|B_{\ell N}|^2 = 10^{-5}, which leads to the rare lepton-number-violating decay W±1±2±(qqˉ)W^\pm \to \ell_1^\pm \ell_2^\pm (q'{\bar q})^\mp. With contributions to this decay from both N1N_1 and N2N_2, a CP-violating rate difference between the decay and its CP-conjugate can be generated. In this talk, I describe the prospects for measuring such a CP asymmetry ACPA_{\rm CP} at the LHC. I consider three versions of the LHC -- HL-LHC, HE-LHC, FCC-hh -- and show that, for 5 GeVMN80 GeV5~{\rm GeV} \le M_N \le 80~{\rm GeV}, small values of the CP asymmetry can be measured at 3σ3\sigma, in the range 1%ACP15%1\%\le A_{\rm CP} \le 15\%.

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@article{arxiv.2104.12244,
  title  = {Rare Lepton-Number-Violating $W$ Decays at the LHC: CP Violation},
  author = {David London},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12244},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, talk presented at BSM-2021. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2011.03686