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In hidden-sector models, axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), leading to rich phenomenologies. We study ALPs produced from $D$- and $B$-meson decays via quark-flavor-violating couplings, and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Liu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are two well-motivated classes of particles beyond the Standard Model. It is intriguing to explore the new detection opportunities that may arise if both particle types coexist.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Marta Burgos Marcos , Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

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) 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

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 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

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

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) and axion-like particles (ALPs) are both considered well-motivated candidates for beyond the standard model (BSM) physics. If ALPs with sizable couplings to gluons exist, they will be abundantly produced at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Rebeca Beltrán , Chandan Hati , Martin Hirsch , Ana Martín-Galán

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) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-08 SHiP Collaboration

We calculate the signal rate of hypothetical heavy neutral leptons (HNL or sterile neutrinos) from kaon decays expected in the framework of the SHiP experiment. The kaons are produced in the hadronic shower initiated in the beam-dump mode…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-20 Dmitry Gorbunov , Igor Krasnov , Yury Kudenko , Sergey Suvorov

We consider the dipole portal to sterile neutrinos, also called heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). The dipole interaction with the photon leads to HNL production in meson decays, as well as triggers the HNL decay into an active neutrino and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Daniele Barducci , Wei Liu , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are a popular extension of the Standard Model to explain the lightness of neutrino masses and the matter-antimatter asymmetry through leptogenesis. Future direct searches, such as fixed target setups like DUNE,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-10 Patrick D. Bolton , Frank F. Deppisch , Mudit Rai , Zhong Zhang

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

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 search prospect of long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) pair produced in decays of axionlike particles (ALPs) at the proposed Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF), focusing on the center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=3.773$ GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaokun Li , Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaorong Zhou

The highly successful Standard Model is not complete. It does not explain the baryonic asymmetry in the Universe, the existence of dark matter or the non-zero masses of the neutrinos. Extensions of the Standard Model that propose the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-24 Sophie Middleton

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

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
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