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With very few exceptions, the large amount of available experimental bounds on heavy neutral leptons - HNL - have been derived relying on the assumption of the existence of a single (usually Majorana) sterile fermion state that mixes with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-24 Asmaa Abada , Pablo Escribano , Xabier Marcano , Gioacchino Piazza

Right-handed neutrinos with large Majorana mass occur naturally in the left-right symmetric model. We explore the prospect of such heavy Right-handed Neutrino search Via $W_R$ decay in the Like Sign Dilepton channel at SSC/LHC. The standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Amitava Dattta , Manoranjan Guchait , D. P. Roy

We present an improved method of reconstructing New Physics (NP) masses from invariant mass endpoints. While the traditional method focuses on a single NP decay, our method considers the decays of two or more NP particles ($ABC...$) in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-22 P. Huang , N. Kersting , H. H. Yang

The aim of this paper is to showcase the novel multilepton ($nl + E\!\!\!\!/_T$, n = 3 - 5) signals, hitherto unexplored at the LHC, arising from the heavier electroweakinos, in several generic pMSSMs at the upcoming LHC experiments. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Amitava Datta , Nabanita Ganguly

Heavy neutrinos can be discovered at LHC. Many extensions for Standard Model predict by existing of new neutrino has a mass at high energies at LHC. B-L model one of them that predict by existence three heavy (right-handed) neutrinos one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-04 Hesham Mansour , Nady Bakhet

This M.Sc. thesis describes a search for exotic leptons. The search has been performed using data from the OPAL detector at the Large Electron Positron collider at CERN. The total integrated luminosity was 663 pb$^{-1}$ with center of mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Elfgren

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

Two recent searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) performed with proton-proton collision data recorded at 13 TeV by the CMS experiment are presented. A prompt search in the trilepton final state analyses events with exactly three charged…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-10 Joscha Knolle

A possibility to search for a heavy isosinglet (sterile) neutrino using its decay mode $\nu_s \to l^{\pm} + 2 jets$ in the $S$ - channel production $pp \to W^* + X \to l^{\pm}\nu_s + X$ in the CMS experiment is studied. The only assumption…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Gninenko , M. M. Kirsanov , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev

The LHC discovery potential of heavy top partners decaying into a top quark and a $Z$ boson is studied in the trilepton channel at 13 TeV in the single production mode. The clean multilepton final state allows to strongly reduce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-25 Lorenzo Basso , Jeremy Andrea

A search for neutral heavy leptons (NHLs) has been performed using an instrumented decay channel at the NuTeV (E-815) experiment at Fermilab. The decay channel was composed of helium bags interspersed with drift chambers, and was used in…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Vaitaitis

We explore the potential to use machine learning methods to search for heavy neutrinos, from their hadronic final states including a fat-jet signal, via the processes $pp \rightarrow W^{\pm *}\rightarrow \mu^{\pm} N \rightarrow \mu^{\pm}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Wei Liu , Jing Li , Zixiang Chen , Hao Sun

A search for a heavy right-handed W boson (W$_\mathrm{R}$) decaying to a heavy right-handed neutrino and a charged lepton in events with two same-flavor leptons (e or $\mu$) and two jets, is presented. The analysis is based on proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-31 CMS Collaboration

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

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are an attractive minimal extension of the Standard Model, as is a singlet scalar $s$ mixing with the Higgs boson. If both are present, it is natural for HNLs to interact with $s$. For a light singlet,the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-27 James M. Cline , Guillermo Gambini

The LHC discovery potential of heavy top partners decaying into a top quark and a $Z$ boson is studied in the trilepton channel at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV. The clean multilepton final state allows to strongly reduce the background contaminations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-11 Lorenzo Basso , Jeremy Andrea

Heavy Neutral Leptons are naturally present in many well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. If their mass is of few dozens of GeVs, they can be long-lived and lead to events with displaced vertices, giving rise to promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-06 Asmaa Abada , Nicolás Bernal , Marta Losada , Xabier Marcano

We consider LHC searches for dilepton resonances in an intermediate mass range, $\sim 10 -80$ GeV. We adopt a kinetically mixed $Z'$ as an example of weakly coupled new physics that might have evaded detection at previous experiments but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 Isaac Hoenig , Gabriel Samach , David Tucker-Smith

We consider the possibility to detect right-handed neutrinos, which are mostly singlets of the Standard Model gauge group, at future accelerators. Substantial mixing of these neutrinos with the active neutrinos requires a cancellation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Joern Kersten , Alexei Yu. Smirnov

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