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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

As the planning stages for a high energy muon collider enter a more concrete era, an important question arises as to what new physics could be uncovered. A TeV-scale muon collider is also a vector boson fusion (VBF) factory with a very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-20 Tsz Hong Kwok , Lingfeng Li , Tao Liu , Ariel Rock

We explore the discovery potential of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), motivated by models addressing the origin of neutrino masses, at the proposed high-energy same-sign muon collider known as $\mu$TRISTAN. The study focuses on two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Ryuichiro Kitano , Ian Low , Ryutaro Matsudo , Shohei Okawa , Subhojit Roy

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

There is a strong experimental program searching for massive sterile neutrinos. Here we focus on the heavy regime above the GeV scale, where their existence can be probed in either high-energy colliders or in high-precision facilities. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Xabier Marcano

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

Heavy neutral leptons $N$ are the most appealing candidates to generate the tiny neutrino masses. In this paper, we study the signature of heavy neutral leptons in gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ at a muon collider. Charged under the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-29 Ru-Yi He , Jia-Qi Huang , Jin-Yuan Xu , Fa-Xin Yang , Zhi-Long Han , Feng-Lan Shao

Heavy neutral leptons (HNL) constitute the building blocks of several neutrino mass generation mechanisms. Experimental searches depend on their masses and mixings with the active neutrinos, and exclusion regions in the plane of mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-30 Gioacchino Piazza , Asmaa Abada , Pablo Escribano , Xabier Marcano

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

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

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

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

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) 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

We discuss the current status and future prospects of heavy neutrino searches at the energy frontier, which might play an important role in vindicating the simplest seesaw paradigm as the new physics responsible for neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-08 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Alejandro Ibarra

A new beam dump experiment that utilizes the beam of future high energy electron-positron colliders could be an excellent avenue to search for dark sector particles due to its unprecedented high energy and intensity. We consider heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-03 Pierce Giffin , Stefania Gori , Yu-Dai Tsai , Douglas Tuckler

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

Heavy spin-one particles are well-motivated new physics candidates that can have their origin in weakly coupled extensions of the Standard Model gauge group or in strongly coupled Composite Higgs models. Due to the variety of production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Francesca Acanfora , Michael J. Baker , Timothy Martonhelyi , Andrea Thamm

A new fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS accelerator is proposed that will use decays of charm mesons to search for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs), which are right-handed partners of the Standard Model neutrinos. The existence of such…

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
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