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A possibility to search for a heavy isosinglet (sterile) neutrino using its decay mode $\nu_s \to l^{\pm} + 2 jets$ in the $S$ - channel production $pp \to W^* + X \to l^{\pm}\nu_s + X$ in the CMS experiment is studied. The only assumption…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Gninenko , M. M. Kirsanov , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

We discuss a CMS eXtension for Studying Energetic Neutrinos (CMS-XSEN). Neutrinos at the LHC are abundant and have unique features: their energies reach out to the TeV range, and the contribution of the {\tau} flavour is sizeable. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-13 S. Buontempo , G. M. Dallavalle , G. De Lellis , D. Lazic , F. L. Navarria

We study the signal of long-lived sterile neutrino at the LHC produced through the decay of the $W$ boson. It decays into charged lepton and jets. The characteristic signature is a hard prompt lepton and a lepton from the displaced decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-29 Jia Liu , Zhen Liu , Lian-Tao Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model. Heavy neutral leptons ($N$), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-15 Willem Verbeke

We study the LHC sensitivity to probe a long-lived heavy neutrino $N$ in the context of $Z'$ models. We focus on displaced vertex signatures of $N$ when pair produced via a $Z'$, decaying to leptons and jets inside the inner trackers of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Giovanna Cottin , Arindam Das , Sanjoy Mandal

We study the LHC discovery potential in the search for heavy neutral leptons (HNL) with a new signature: a displaced shower in the CMS muon detector, giving rise to a large cluster of hits forming a displaced shower. A new Delphes module is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-15 Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Cristián Peña , Christina Wang , Si Xie

We investigate the physics potential of SHIFT@LHC, a proposed gaseous fixed target installed in the LHC tunnel, as a novel source of detectable neutrinos. Using simulations of proton-gas collisions, hadron propagation, and neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 Alfonso Garcia-Soto , Jeremi Niedziela

We propose the operation of \textbf{LEvEL}, the Low-Energy Neutrino Experiment at the LHC, a neutrino detector near the Large Hadron Collider Beam Dump. Such a detector is capable of exploring an intense, low-energy neutrino flux and can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-06 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado , Alberto Marchionni , Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

The neutrino physics program at the LHC, which will soon be initiated by the FASER experiment, will provide unique opportunities for precision studies of neutrino interaction vertices at high energies. This will also open up the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-25 Krzysztof Jodłowski , Sebastian Trojanowski

The mediators of neutrino mass generation can provide a probe of neutrino properties at the next round of high-energy hadron (FCC-hh) and lepton colliders (FCC-ee/ILC/CEPC/CLIC). We show how the decays of the Higgs triplet scalars mediating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Sanjoy Mandal , O. G. Miranda , G. Sanchez Garcia , J. W. F. Valle , Xun-Jie Xu

The search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using high-energy neutrinos represents a frontier in high-energy astrophysics. However, a critical bottleneck remains: the ability to rapidly survey the sizable sky areas…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Fabian Schüssler , Sofia Bisero , Bernardo Cornejo , Filippo D'Ammando , Richard I. Anderson , Ilja Jaroschewski , Silvia Piranomonte , Fatemeh Zahra Majid

The first direct detection of neutrinos at the LHC not only marks the beginning of a novel collider neutrino program at CERN but also motivates considering additional neutrino detectors to fully exploit the associated physics potential. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-08-01 Akitaka Ariga , Steven Barwick , Jamie Boyd , Max Fieg , Felix Kling , Toni Mäkelä , Camille Vendeuvre , Benjamin Weyer

We present the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovery potential in the $Z'$ and heavy neutrino sectors of a $U(1)_{B-L}$ enlarged Standard Model also encompassing three heavy Majorana neutrinos. This model exhibits novel signatures at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Basso , A. Belyaev , S. Moretti , G. M. Pruna , C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous

A detailed study is presented of elastic WW scattering in the scenario that there are no new particles discovered prior to the commissioning of the LHC. We work within the framework of the electroweak chiral lagrangian and two different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Butterworth , B. E. Cox , J. R. Forshaw

The detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos, with energies in the PeV range or above, is a topic of great interest in modern astroparticle physics. The importance comes from the fact that these neutrinos point back to the most energetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Hermes León Vargas , Andrés Sandoval , Ernesto Belmont , Rubén Alfaro

SND@LHC is a compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity region of 7.2 < {\eta} < 8.4, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-02 A. Iuliano

Production of neutrinos is abundant at LHC. Flavour composition and energy reach of the neutrino flux from proton-proton collisions depend on the pseudorapidity $\eta$. At large $\eta$, energies can exceed the TeV, with a sizeable…

We study the sensitivity of displaced vertex searches for heavy neutrinos produced in W boson decays in the LHC detectors ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. We also propose a new search that uses the muon chambers to detect muons from heavy neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-28 Marco Drewes , Jan Hajer

In the inverse see-saw model the effective neutrino Yukawa couplings can be sizable due to a large mixing angle between the light $(\nu)$and heavy neutrinos $(N)$. When the right handed neutrino $(N)$ can be lighter than the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-29 Arindam Das , Yu Gao , Teruki Kamon

It is assumed that neutrino-nucleon scattering at ultra-high energies effectively proceeds through excitations of leptoquarks in neutrino-quark subprocesses. This approach reproduces the behavior of the energy dependence of the ultra-high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-23 I. Alikhanov
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