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We evaluate the potential of the DUNE Near Detector (DUNEND) for establishing bounds for heavy neutral leptons (HNL). This is achieved by studying how the presence of HNLs affects the production rates of active neutrinos, therefore,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 S. Carbajal , A. M. Gago

Heavy nearly-sterile neutrinos are a common ingredient in extensions of the Standard Model which aim to explain neutrino masses, like for instance in Type I seesaw models, or one of its variants. If the scale of the new Heavy Neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-03 Peter Ballett , Tommaso Boschi , Silvia Pascoli

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are both well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. As ALPs couple to on-shell fermions proportionally to their masses, processes involving both types of particles may give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

In this whitepaper, we consider the model of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) as an example to explore the potential of new physics searches at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We propose two broad categories of search strategies depending on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-13 Brian Batell , Tathagata Ghosh , Tao Han , Keping Xie

A search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), the right-handed Dirac or Majorana neutrinos, is performed in final states with three charged leptons (electrons or muons) using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-27 CMS Collaboration

Heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations can naturally appear in mechanisms of low scale neutrino mass generation, where pairs of heavy neutrinos have almost degenerate masses. We discuss the case where the heavy neutrinos are sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Stefan Antusch , Eros Cazzato , Oliver Fischer

Gravity is generally expected to violate global symmetries, including lepton number. However, neutrino masses from the Planck-suppressed Weinberg operator are typically too small to account for oscillation data. We propose a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Stefan Antusch , Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Miguel Levy

We review and revise phenomenology of the GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). We extend the previous analyses by including more channels of HNLs production and decay and provide with more refined treatment, including QCD corrections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-12 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dmitry Gorbunov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The existence of the neutrino masses and mixing would be an important window into the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model, which will be searched for in the forthcoming experiments such as LHC. In this talk, we discuss some examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eung Jin Chun

In hidden-sector models, axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), leading to rich phenomenologies. We study ALPs produced from $D$- and $B$-meson decays via quark-flavor-violating couplings, and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Liu

The existence of tiny neutrino masses and flavor mixings can be explained naturally in various seesaw models, many of which typically having additional Majorana type SM gauge singlet right handed neutrinos ($N$). If they are at around the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-20 Arindam Das , Partha Konar , Arun Thalapillil

Heavy neutral leptons are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model with massive neutrinos. If kinematically accessible, they can be copiously produced from kaon and pion decays in atmospheric showers, and subsequently decay inside…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Pilar Coloma , Pilar Hernández , Víctor Muñoz , Ian. M. Shoemaker

We consider the possibility to detect right-handed neutrinos, which are mostly singlets of the Standard Model gauge group, at future accelerators. Substantial mixing of these neutrinos with the active neutrinos requires a cancellation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joern Kersten , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

Several models of neutrino masses predict the existence of neutral heavy leptons. Here, we review current constraints on heavy neutrinos and apply a new formalism separating new physics from Standard Model. We discuss also the indirect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-06 F. J. Escrihuela , D. V. Forero , O. G. Miranda , M. Tortola , J. W. F. Valle

A search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) of Majorana or Dirac type using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV is presented. The data were collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-02 CMS Collaboration

Models of neutrino mass generation provide well motivated scenarios of Beyond-the-Standard-Model physics. The synergy between low energy and high energy LHC searches facilitates an effective approach to rule out, constrain or ideally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-06 Frank F. Deppisch

We revisit the generation of a matter-antimatter asymmetry in the minimal extension of the Standard Model with two singlet heavy neutral leptons (HNL) that can explain neutrino masses. We derive an accurate analytical approximation to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Pilar Hernandez , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon , Nuria Rius , Stefan Sandner

We study the single production of heavy neutrinos via the processes $e^-e^+ \to \nu N$ and $e^-\gamma \to W^- N$ at future linear colliders. As a base of our considerations we take a wide class of models, both with vanishing and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Gluza , J. Maalampi , M. Raidal , M. Zralek

We discuss the potential to observe lepton number violation (LNV) in displaced vertex searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at future lepton colliders. Even though a direct detection of LNV is impossible for the dominant production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-16 Marco Drewes

Interest in searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario, HNLs are produced and decay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang