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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

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

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

We study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC in effective field theory, concentrating on $d=6$ operators with top quarks. Depending on the operator choice and HNL mass, the HNLs will be produced either from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Julian Günther , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

If neutrinos are Dirac particles and, as suggested by the so far null LHC results, any new physics lies at energies well above the electroweak scale, the Standard Model effective field theory has to be extended with operators involving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-26 Julien Alcaide , Shankha Banerjee , Mikael Chala , Arsenii Titov

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

We study the Standard Model effective field theory ($\nu$SMEFT) extended with operators involving right-handed neutrinos, focussing on the regime where the right-handed neutrinos decay promptly on collider scales to a photon and a Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Anke Biekötter , Mikael Chala , Michael Spannowsky

We study the impact of light GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) on Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) in the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory ($\nu$SMEFT). We show that, based on very general considerations, BBN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Pieter Braat , Jordy de Vries , Jelle Groot , Julian Y. Günther , Juraj Klarić

In this work we study the current bounds from the CE{\nu}NS process and meson invisible decays on generic neutrino interactions with sterile neutrinos in effective field theories. The interactions between quarks and left-handed SM neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Tong Li , Xiao-Dong Ma , Michael A. Schmidt

Neutrino oscillation experiments have provided direct evidence for the existence of neutrino masses. The seesaw mechanism explains the smallness of these masses through the introduction of heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN) states. The RHN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Manimala Mitra , Subham Saha , Michael Spannowsky , Michihisa Takeuchi

The gauge singlet right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) are essential fields in several neutrino mass models that explain the observed eV scale neutrino mass. We assume RHN field to be present in the vicinity of the electroweak scale and all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-06 Manimala Mitra , Sanjoy Mandal , Rojalin Padhan , Agnivo Sarkar , Michael Spannowsky

The future high-energy muon colliders, featuring both high energy and low background, could play a critical role in our searches for new physics. The smallness of neutrino mass is a puzzle of particle physics. Broad classes of solutions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Peiran Li , Zhen Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu

The observation of neutrino oscillations and masses motivates the extension of the standard model with right handed neutrinos, leading to heavy neutrino states possibly in the electroweak scale, which could be impacted by new high-scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Gabriel Zapata , Tomás Urruzola , Oscar A. Sampayo , Lucía Duarte

We constrain general Dirac neutrino interactions based on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory framework extended with right-handed neutrinos $N$ (SMNEFT) using deep inelastic and coherent elastic neutrino scattering, nuclear beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-08 Tao Han , Jiajun Liao , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

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…

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 investigate contributions to the anomalous magnetic moments of charged leptons in the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory ($\nu$SMEFT). We discuss how $\nu$SMEFT operators can contribute to a lepton's magnetic moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-24 Vincenzo Cirigliano , Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Kaori Fuyuto , Emanuele Mereghetti , Richard Ruiz

Lepton-number-violating interactions occur in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at odd dimensions starting from the dimension-5 Weinberg operator. Although the operators at dimension-7 and higher are more suppressed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Kåre Fridell , Lukáš Gráf , Julia Harz , Chandan Hati

We compute the leading-logarithmic correction to the neutrino mass matrix in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) to dimension seven. In the limit of negligible lepton and down-type quark Yukawa couplings, it receives…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-06 Mikael Chala , Arsenii Titov

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
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