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High-energy muon collider can play as an emitter of electroweak gauge bosons and thus leads to substantial vector boson scattering (VBS) processes. In this work, we investigate the production of heavy neutral lepton (HNL) $N$ and lepton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Tong Li , Chang-Yuan Yao , Man Yuan

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) provide a compelling extension to the Standard Model, addressing the neutrino masses, baryogenesis, and dark matter problems. We perform a model-independent collider study, decoupling the active-sterile mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-14 Nicolás Bernal , Kuldeep Deka , Marta Losada

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are often among the hypothetical ingredients behind nonzero neutrino masses. If sufficiently light, they can be produced and detected in fixed-target-like experiments. We show that if the HNLs belong to a richer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Asli M Abdullahi , André de Gouvêa , Bhaskar Dutta , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

Neutrinoless double-beta decay is proposed as an important low energy phenomenon that could test beyond the Standard Model physics. There are several potentially competing beyond the Standard Model mechanisms that can induce the process. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-09 Fahim Ahmed , Andrei Neacsu , Mihai Horoi

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) with masses $\mathcal{O}(0.1 - 1\,\,\text{GeV}/c^{2})$ are promising candidates for the simultaneous explanation of the smallness of the observed neutrino masses as well as the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Komninos-John Plows , Xianguo Lu

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) with masses around the electroweak scale are expected to be rather long-lived particles, as a result of the observed smallness of the active neutrino masses. In this work, we study long-lived HNLs in $N_R$SMEFT,…

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

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

Heavy Neutral Leptons are popular hypothetical particles, first introduced as a way to explain neutrino oscillations, and since then extensively studied in relation to many other aspects of physics beyond the Standard Model. They also serve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Igor Krasnov

We propose a new model with the Majorana neutrino masses generated at two-loop level, in which the lepton number violation (LNV) processes, such as neutrinoless double beta decays, are mainly induced by the dimension-7 LNV effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-14 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai , Qing Wang

The extension of the Standard Model lepton sector by three right-handed Majorana neutrinos (heavy neutral leptons, HNL) with masses up to GeV scale is considered. While the lightest HNL is the dark matter particle with mass of the order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-03 M. N. Dubinin , D. M. Kazarkin

The model of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is one of the well-motivated models beyond the standard model (BSM) from both theoretical and phenomenological point of views. It is an indispensable ingredient to explain the puzzle of tiny…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Kingman Cheung , Yi-Lun Chung , Hiroyuki Ishida , Chih-Ting Lu

Observation of lepton number ($L$) violation by two units at colliders would provide evidence for the Majorana nature of neutrinos. We study signals of $L$-violation in the context of two popular models of neutrino masses, the type-II…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-16 K. S. Babu , Rahool Kumar Barman , Dorival Gonçalves , Ahmed Ismail

Stopped muons, which are generic in pion-at-rest experiments, can shed light on heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) in unexplored parameter spaces. If the HNL is lighter than the muon, the HNL can be produced from decays of muons and pions.The HNL…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Yohei Ema , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Maxim Pospelov

The future muon collider has the potential to discover feebly interacting particles in a wide range of masses above the electroweak scale. It is particularly suitable to search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), as their production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Oleksii Mikulenko , Mariia Marinichenko

We study the dominant signatures that arise in Higgs physics at colliders when extending the Standard Model (SM) with a Yukawa interaction to heavy neutral leptons (HNL), while suppressing their mixing to active neutrinos. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-27 Nicolás Bernal , Kuldeep Deka , Marta Losada

Small neutrino masses can be sourced by a tiny vacuum expectation value of a leptophilic Higgs doublet, and mediated by Quasi-Dirac heavy neutrinos. In such simplest linear seesaw picture the neutrino mass mediators can be accessible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-03 Aditya Batra , Praveen Bharadwaj , Sanjoy Mandal , Rahul Srivastava , José W. F. Valle

Majorana neutrinos in the seesaw model can have sizable mixings through which they can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and show a remarkable Lepton Number Violating (LNV) signature. In this article we study the LNV decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Gorazd Cvetic , Arindam Das , Sebastian Tapia , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are constrained by requirements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) as their decays significantly impact the formation of the primordial elements. We propose here a model where the primary decay channel for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Frank F. Deppisch , Tomás E. Gonzalo , Chayan Majumdar , Zhong Zhang

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are motivated by attempts to explain neutrino masses and dark matter. If their masses are in the MeV to several GeV range, HNLs are light enough to be copiously produced at collider and accelerator facilities,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-10 Jonathan L. Feng , Alec Hewitt , Felix Kling , Daniel La Rocco