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We explore the feasibility of detecting heavy neutrinos by the existing facilities of neutrino experiments. A heavy neutrino in the mass range 1 MeV < M < 500 MeV is produced by pion or kaon decay, and decays to charged particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Takehiko Asaka , Shintaro Eijima , Atsushi Watanabe

We demonstrate that TeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) responsible for inverse-seesaw neutrino mass generation can simultaneously fix the cosmological abundance and decay properties of dark matter (DM). The spontaneous breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Shu-Yu Ho , Van Que Tran

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

This paper presents a theoretical study on the production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton (HFL) in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC. The pp-baseline is calculated by the FONLL program, which matches the next-to-leading order pQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Sa Wang , Yao Li , Shuwan Shen , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

Gravity is generally expected to violate global symmetries, including lepton number. However, neutrino masses from the Planck-suppressed Weinberg operator are typically too small to account for oscillation data. We propose a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Stefan Antusch , Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Miguel Levy

We study the non-standard interactions of neutrinos with light leptonic scalars ($\phi$) in a global $(B-L)$-conserved ultraviolet (UV)-complete model. The model utilizes Type-II seesaw motivated neutrino interactions with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-28 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Bhaskar Dutta , Tathagata Ghosh , Tao Han , Han Qin , Yongchao Zhang

A search for a heavy neutral lepton N of Majorana nature decaying into a W boson and a charged lepton is performed using the CMS detector at the LHC. The targeted signature consists of three prompt charged leptons in any flavor combination…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-06 CMS Collaboration

A charged Higgs pair can be produced at an ee collider through a t-channel exchange of a heavy neutrino (N) via e^+ e^- -> H^+ H^- and, if N is a Majorana particle, also via the lepton number violating (LNV) like-sign reaction e^\pm e^\pm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Atwood , Shaouly Bar-Shalom , Amarjit Soni

In this work we prob a class of neutrino mass models at both Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies 8 TeV and 14 TeV. The focus will be on the new introduced interaction terms between a singlet charged scalar, $S^{\pm}$, and leptons leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Chahrazed Guella , Dounia Cherigui , Amine Ahriche , Salah Nasri , Rachik Soualah

If any heavy neutral leptons are discovered in accelerator-based experiments, key questions will involve their possible connection to neutrino masses or leptogenesis. Working in a renormalisable extension of the Standard Model by three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Marco Drewes , Yannis Georis , Juraj Klarić , Antony Wendels

In this paper we explore the potential of Ultra-peripheral Collisions in the LHC to investigate new physics, focusing specifically on the production of new charged vector bosons ${V}^{\pm}$ that decay into heavy neutral leptons $N_{L}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Y. M. Oviedo-Torres , Sebastian Tapia , J. Zamora-Saa

We develop the search strategy for a heavy Majorana neutrino via the lepton number violation signal process $p\, e^- \to \mu^+ jjj$ at future electron-proton colliders. The signal and dominant standard model background events are generated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-25 Haiyong Gu , Kechen Wang

In R-parity-violating (RPV) supersymmetric models, light neutralinos with masses from the GeV-scale down to even zero are still allowed by all laboratory constraints. They are further consistent with dark matter observations, as they decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Herbi K. Dreiner , Dominik Köhler , Saurabh Nangia , Martin Schürmann , Zeren Simon Wang

We present a search for long-lived Higgs portal scalars (HPS) and heavy neutral leptons (HNL) decaying in the MicroBooNE liquid-argon time projection chamber. The measurement is performed using data collected synchronously with the NuMI…

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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

The problems of neutrino masses, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter could be successfully addressed by postulating right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale. In this work, leptonic decays of $W$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-03 ATLAS Collaboration

The precise reconstruction of the mass peak of long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) helps to improve the sensitivity for sterile neutrino searches in both fixed-target and collider environments (e.g., SHiP and the LHC). We present an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Marzieh Bahmani , Alessandro Guida , Maral Khandan , Heiko Markus Lacker , Anupama Reghunath

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 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

We utilize the lepton number violation signal process $p\, e^- \to \tau^+ jjj$ to search for heavy Majorana neutrinos at future proton-electron colliders. The LHeC (FCC-eh) is considered to run with an electron beam energy of 60 GeV, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-26 Haiyong Gu , Ying-nan Mao , Hao Sun , Kechen Wang