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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 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

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 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

Heavy neutral leptons are present in many well-motivated beyond the Standard Model theories, sometimes being accessible at present colliders. Depending on their masses and couplings they could be long-lived and lead to events with displaced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Xabier Marcano

In the framework of the low-energy effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), we calculate the production rates of HNLs from meson decays triggered by dimension-six operators. We consider both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

New Physics models in which the Standard Model particle content is enlarged via the addition of sterile fermions remain among the most minimal and yet most appealing constructions, particularly since these states are present as building…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-20 Asmaa Abada , Ana M. Teixeira

We analyze the capacity of future $Z$-factories to search for heavy neutrinos with their mass from 10 to 85 GeV. The heavy neutrinos $N$ are considered to be produced via the process $e^+e^-\to Z\to \nu N$ and to decay into an electron or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-20 Jian-Nan Ding , Qin Qin , Fu-Sheng Yu

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

We consider the upscattering of atmospheric neutrinos in the interior of the Earth producing heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) which subsequently decay inside large volume detectors (e.g. Super-Kamiokande or DUNE). We compute the flux of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 R. Andrew Gustafson , Ryan Plestid , Ian M. Shoemaker

In the framework of the low-energy effective theory containing in addition to the Standard Model fields heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), we compute the decay rates of neutral and charged kaons into HNLs. We consider both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Rebeca Beltrán , Julian Günther , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

We report a search for a heavy neutral lepton (HNL) that mixes predominantly with $\nu_\tau$. The search utilizes data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. The data sample was collected at and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-17 Belle Collaboration , M. Nayak , S. Dey , A. Soffer , I. Adachi , H. Aihara , S. Al Said , D. M. Asner , H. Atmacan , R. Ayad , V. Babu , Sw. Banerjee , M. Bauer , P. Behera , K. Belous , M. Bessner , V. Bhardwaj , B. Bhuyan , T. Bilka , D. Biswas , A. Bobrov , D. Bodrov , M. Bračko , P. Branchini , T. E. Browder , A. Budano , M. Campajola , D. Červenkov , M. -C. Chang , B. G. Cheon , H. E. Cho , K. Cho , Y. Choi , S. Choudhury , S. Das , G. De Nardo , G. De Pietro , R. Dhamija , F. Di Capua , J. Dingfelder , Z. Doležal , T. V. Dong , S. Dubey , P. Ecker , D. Epifanov , T. Ferber , O. Fogel , B. G. Fulsom , V. Gaur , A. Giri , P. Goldenzweig , E. Graziani , K. Gudkova , C. Hadjivasiliou , S. Halder , T. Hara , K. Hayasaka , H. Hayashii , S. Hazra , M. T. Hedges , D. Herrmann , W. -S. Hou , C. -L. Hsu , K. Inami , A. Ishikawa , R. Itoh , M. Iwasaki , W. W. Jacobs , S. Jia , Y. Jin , T. Kawasaki , C. Kiesling , C. H. Kim , D. Y. Kim , K. Kinoshita , P. Kodyš , A. Korobov , S. Korpar , P. Križan , P. Krokovny , T. Kuhr , D. Kumar , R. Kumar , A. Kuzmin , Y. -J. Kwon , Y. -T. Lai , T. Lam , J. S. Lange , M. Laurenza , S. C. Lee , L. K. Li , Y. B. Li , L. Li Gioi , J. Libby , K. Lieret , Y. -R. Lin , D. Liventsev , T. Luo , Y. Ma , M. Masuda , S. K. Maurya , F. Meier , M. Merola , K. Miyabayashi , R. Mizuk , G. B. Mohanty , R. Mussa , I. Nakamura , M. Nakao , Z. Natkaniec , A. Natochii , L. Nayak , S. Nishida , S. Ogawa , H. Ono , P. Oskin , P. Pakhlov , G. Pakhlova , S. Pardi , H. Park , J. Park , S. -H. Park , A. Passeri , S. Patra , S. Paul , R. Pestotnik , L. E. Piilonen , T. Podobnik , E. Prencipe , M. T. Prim , M. Röhrken , A. Rostomyan , N. Rout , G. Russo , S. Sandilya , L. Santelj , V. Savinov , G. Schnell , C. Schwanda , Y. Seino , K. Senyo , M. E. Sevior , W. Shan , C. Sharma , C. P. Shen , J. -G. Shiu , J. B. Singh , A. Sokolov , E. Solovieva , M. Starič , M. Sumihama , M. Takizawa , K. Tanida , F. Tenchini , Y. Unno , S. Uno , Y. Ushiroda , S. E. Vahsen , M. -Z. Wang , S. Watanuki , E. Won , B. D. Yabsley , W. Yan , J. H. Yin , L. Yuan , Z. P. Zhang , V. Zhilich , V. Zhukova

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) have been an interesting topic for experimental particle physics in the past few years. A study has been performed within the framework of the multi-instrument DUNE near detector complex, specifically regarding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-11 Zahra Ghorbani Moghaddam

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with its primary capacity to elucidate the nuclear structure, will offer new opportunities to probe physics beyond the Standard Model coupled to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Brian Batell , Tathagata Ghosh , Tao Han , Keping Xie

We propose a new strategy to probe heavy neutrinos with non-universal fermion couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using a novel production mechanism and machine-learning algorithms. Focusing on proton--proton collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Yin-Fa Shen , Alfredo Gurrola , Francesco Romeo , Denis Rathjens , Andres Flórez

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 hypothetical particles able to explain neutrino oscillations and provide a mechanism for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Quantum corrections due to such particles give rise to flavor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Kevin A. Urquía-Calderón , Inar Timiryasov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

The existence of right-handed neutrinos, or heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), is strongly motivated by the observation of neutrino masses and mixing. The mass of these new particles could lie below the electroweak scale, making them accessible…

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics contain new electrically-neutral fermions. Should one of these particles be discovered, questions will naturally arise regarding its nature. For instance: is it a self-conjugate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 André de Gouvêa , Patrick J. Fox , Boris J. Kayser , Kevin J. Kelly

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles proposed as a potential explanation for neutrino oscillations and the generation of the baryon asymmetry in the Universe. This paper focuses on HNLs with masses significantly above the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-11 Volodymyr Gorkavenko , Oleksandr Khasai , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Mariia Tsarenkova