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Testing a Neutrino Mass Generation Mechanism at the Large Hadron Collider

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-10-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider could be a discovery machine for the neutrino mass pattern and its Majorana nature in the context of a well-motivated TeV scale Type II seesaw model. This is achieved by identifying the flavor structure of the lepton number violating decays of the charged Higgs bosons. The observation of either H^+ --> tau^+ nubar or H^+ --> e^+ nubar will be particularly robust to determine the neutrino spectra since they are independent of the unknown Majorana phases, which could be probed via the H^{++} --> e^+_i e^+_j decays. In a less favorable scenario when the leptonic channels are suppressed, one needs to observe the decays H^+ --> W^+ H_1, and H^+ --> t bbar to confirm the triplet-doublet mixing that implies the Type II relation. The associated production H^{++} H^{-} is crucial in order to test the triplet nature of the Higgs field.

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@article{arxiv.0803.3450,
  title  = {Testing a Neutrino Mass Generation Mechanism at the Large Hadron Collider},
  author = {Pavel Fileviez Perez and Tao Han and Gui-Yu Huang and Tong Li and Kai Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.3450},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, published in PRD Rapid Communication