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We consider generic neutrino dipole portals between left-handed neutrinos, photons, and right-handed heavy neutral leptons (HNL) with Dirac masses. The dominance of this portal significantly alters the conventional phenomenology of HNLs. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-21 Gabriel Magill , Ryan Plestid , Maxim Pospelov , Yu-Dai Tsai

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 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 (HNLs) can cause new effective interactions of Standard Model particles, particularly charged lepton flavour violation (cLFV) processes. The non-observation of cLFV processes, therefore, puts constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Volodymyr Gorkavenko , Oleksandr Khasai , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Mariia Tsarenkova

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 particle physics, the modern view is to categorize things in terms of effective field theories (EFTs). Above the weak scale, we have the SMEFT, formed when the heavy new physics (NP) is integrated out, and for which the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Serge Hamoudou , Jacky Kumar , David London

We investigate how extensions of the Standard Model (SM) involving heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) can be probed at FCC-ee, the proposed high-energy circular $e^+e^-$ collider. Using the effective field theory (EFT) approach, we determine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Patrick D. Bolton , Frank F. Deppisch , Suchita Kulkarni , Chayan Majumdar , Wenna Pei

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) offers a powerful theoretical framework for parameterizing the low-energy effects of heavy new particles with masses far above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additional light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-17 Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Sophie Renner

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

The discovery of neutrino oscillations and masses provides strong motivation to extend the Standard Model by including right-handed neutrinos, which lead to heavy neutrino states that could exist at the electroweak scale. These states may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-19 Lucía Duarte , Daniel Chalençon Maisian , Tomás Urruzola

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

Given the absence of direct evidence for new resonances beyond the Standard Model (BSM) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) so far, a complementary strategy to search for new physics in an indirect way is provided by the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Jaco ter Hoeve

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

We study the phenomenology of physics beyond the Standard Model in long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments using the most general parametrisation of heavy new physics in the framework of Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT), as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-29 Joachim Kopp , Zahra Tabrizi , Salvador Urrea

Standard Model Neutrino Effective Field Theory (SMNEFT) is an effective theory with Standard Model (SM) gauge-invariant operators constructed only from SM and right-handed neutrino fields. For the full set of dimension-six SMNEFT operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Alakabha Datta , Jacky Kumar , Hongkai Liu , Danny Marfatia

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) based on the unbroken gauge group $\text{SU(3)}_C\otimes\text{SU(2)}_L\otimes\text{U(1)}_Y$ and containing only particles of the Standard Model (SM) has developed in the last decade to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Jason Aebischer , Andrzej J. Buras , Jacky Kumar

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

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a systematic and model-independent framework to study neutrino non-standard interactions (NSIs). We study the constraining power of the on-going neutrino oscillation experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Yong Du , Hao-Lin Li , Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen , Jiang-Hao Yu

We formulate an Effective Field Theory (EFT) for Non Standard neutrino Interactions (NSI) in elastic scattering with light quarks, leptons, gluons and photons, including all possible operators of dimension 5, 6 and 7. We provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-23 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

We study constraints on the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) from neutrino oscillations in short-baseline reactor experiments. We calculate the survival probability of reactors antineutrinos at the leading order in the SMEFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Adam Falkowski , Martín González-Alonso , Zahra Tabrizi