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We investigate the heavier electroweakino sectors in several versions of the MSSM, which has not been explored so far in the light of the LHC data, and obtain new bounds using the ATLAS Run I constraints in the $3l + {E\!\!\!\!/_T}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Amitava Datta , Nabanita Ganguly , Sujoy Poddar

We study the feasibility to observe sterile neutrinos with masses in the range 5 GeV $< m_N < 20$ GeV at the LHC, using exclusive semileptonic modes involving pions, $W\to \ell N \to \pi \ell\ell, 2\pi \ell\ell$ and $3\pi \ell\ell$. We thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-26 Claudio O. Dib , Choong Sun Kim , Sebastian Tapia Araya

A search is performed for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), produced through the decay of a $W$ boson along with a muon or electron. Two channels are explored: a leptonic channel, in which the HNL decays into two leptons and a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-25 ATLAS Collaboration

We report a search for a heavy neutral lepton (HNL) that mixes predominantly with $\nu_\tau$. The search utilizes data collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy $e^+ e^-$ collider. The data sample was collected at and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-17 Belle Collaboration , M. Nayak , S. Dey , A. Soffer , I. Adachi , H. Aihara , S. Al Said , D. M. Asner , H. Atmacan , R. Ayad , V. Babu , Sw. Banerjee , M. Bauer , P. Behera , K. Belous , M. Bessner , V. Bhardwaj , B. Bhuyan , T. Bilka , D. Biswas , A. Bobrov , D. Bodrov , M. Bračko , P. Branchini , T. E. Browder , A. Budano , M. Campajola , D. Červenkov , M. -C. Chang , B. G. Cheon , H. E. Cho , K. Cho , Y. Choi , S. Choudhury , S. Das , G. De Nardo , G. De Pietro , R. Dhamija , F. Di Capua , J. Dingfelder , Z. Doležal , T. V. Dong , S. Dubey , P. Ecker , D. Epifanov , T. Ferber , O. Fogel , B. G. Fulsom , V. Gaur , A. Giri , P. Goldenzweig , E. Graziani , K. Gudkova , C. Hadjivasiliou , S. Halder , T. Hara , K. Hayasaka , H. Hayashii , S. Hazra , M. T. Hedges , D. Herrmann , W. -S. Hou , C. -L. Hsu , K. Inami , A. Ishikawa , R. Itoh , M. Iwasaki , W. W. Jacobs , S. Jia , Y. Jin , T. Kawasaki , C. Kiesling , C. H. Kim , D. Y. Kim , K. Kinoshita , P. Kodyš , A. Korobov , S. Korpar , P. Križan , P. Krokovny , T. Kuhr , D. Kumar , R. Kumar , A. Kuzmin , Y. -J. Kwon , Y. -T. Lai , T. Lam , J. S. Lange , M. Laurenza , S. C. Lee , L. K. Li , Y. B. Li , L. Li Gioi , J. Libby , K. Lieret , Y. -R. Lin , D. Liventsev , T. Luo , Y. Ma , M. Masuda , S. K. Maurya , F. Meier , M. Merola , K. Miyabayashi , R. Mizuk , G. B. Mohanty , R. Mussa , I. Nakamura , M. Nakao , Z. Natkaniec , A. Natochii , L. Nayak , S. Nishida , S. Ogawa , H. Ono , P. Oskin , P. Pakhlov , G. Pakhlova , S. Pardi , H. Park , J. Park , S. -H. Park , A. Passeri , S. Patra , S. Paul , R. Pestotnik , L. E. Piilonen , T. Podobnik , E. Prencipe , M. T. Prim , M. Röhrken , A. Rostomyan , N. Rout , G. Russo , S. Sandilya , L. Santelj , V. Savinov , G. Schnell , C. Schwanda , Y. Seino , K. Senyo , M. E. Sevior , W. Shan , C. Sharma , C. P. Shen , J. -G. Shiu , J. B. Singh , A. Sokolov , E. Solovieva , M. Starič , M. Sumihama , M. Takizawa , K. Tanida , F. Tenchini , Y. Unno , S. Uno , Y. Ushiroda , S. E. Vahsen , M. -Z. Wang , S. Watanuki , E. Won , B. D. Yabsley , W. Yan , J. H. Yin , L. Yuan , Z. P. Zhang , V. Zhilich , V. Zhukova

The Left-Right model is a popular extension of the Standard Model that features three new neutral gauge bosons, $W^{\pm}_R$ and $Z_R$. Collider searches for a Left-Right symmetry are often concentrated on the charged right-handed current,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Gabriela Lichtenstein , Ricardo C. Silva , Mario J. Neves , Farinaldo Queiroz

We analyse l W nu production at ILC, paying special attention to the role of the final lepton flavour and beam polarisation in the search for a new heavy neutrino N. We show that a sizeable coupling to the electron V_eN ~ 10^-2 is necessary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 F. del Aguila , J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra , A. Martinez de la Ossa , D. Meloni

Motivated by the recent search for a Higgs-Portal Scalar decaying inside the MicroBooNE detector, we demonstrate that the same search can be used to constrain Heavy Neutral Leptons. These are gauge-singlet fermions that interact with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Kevin J. Kelly , Pedro A. N. Machado

The hallmark way to search for electroweakinos in natural supersymmetry at the LHC involves the trilepton plus missing energy final state. This approach assumes an electroweakino mass hierarchy that allows for cascade decays leading to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Antonio Delgado , Adam Martin

We revisit discovery prospects for a long-lived sterile neutrino $N$ at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the context of left-right symmetric theories. We focus on a displaced vertex search strategy sensitive to $\mathcal{O}$(GeV) neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Dario Silva

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) appear in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In this study, we investigate to which extent the NA62 experiment at CERN could improve the existing bounds on the HNL mixing angle $|U_e|^2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-10 Jean-Loup Tastet , Evgueni Goudzovski , Inar Timiryasov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to search for excited spin-1/2 electrons and neutrinos. Assuming a SU(2)_L X U(1)_Y invariant model, we study in detail the single production of excited electrons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 O. J. P. Eboli , S. M. lietti , Prakash Mathews

A search for new particles has been conducted using events with two high transverse momentum (pt) tau leptons that decay hadronically, at least two high-pt jets, and missing transverse energy from the tau lepton decays. The analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-21 CMS Collaboration

We apply machine learning to the searches of heavy neutrino mixing in the inverse seesaw in the framework of left-right symmetric model at the high-energy hadron colliders. The Majorana nature of heavy neutrinos can induce the processes $pp…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Si-Yu Chen , Yu-Peng Jiao , Shi-Yu Wang , Qi-Shu Yan , Hong-Hao Zhang , Yongchao Zhang

We have investigated the possibility of direct tests of little Higgs models incorporating triplet Higgs neutrino mass mechanism at LHC experiments. We have performed Monte Carlo studies of Drell-Yan pair production of doubly charged Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Hektor , M. Kadastik , M. Muntel , M. Raidal , L. Rebane

We propose a channel for the possible discovery of new charged leptons at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed final state contains three same-sign leptons, making this new channel practically back- groundless. The method is illustrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-05-12 V. E. Ozcan , S. Sultansoy , G. Unel

A study on the possibility of distinguishing new heavy Majorana neutrino models at LHC energies is presented. The experimental confirmation of standard neutrinos with non-zero mass and the theoretical possibility of lepton number violation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. M. L. de Almeida , Y. A. Coutinho , J. A. Martins Simoes , A. J. Ramalho , S. Wulck , M. A. B. do Vale

We discuss lepton flavour violating processes induced in the production and decay of heavy right-handed neutrinos at the LHC. Such particles appear in left-right symmetrical extensions of the Standard Model as the messengers of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 S. P. Das , F. F. Deppisch , O. Kittel , J. W. F. Valle

We study the LHC sensitivity to probe a long-lived heavy neutrino $N$ in the context of $Z'$ models. We focus on displaced vertex signatures of $N$ when pair produced via a $Z'$, decaying to leptons and jets inside the inner trackers of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Giovanna Cottin , Arindam Das , Sanjoy Mandal

A novel search for heavy vector resonances in the $H\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ and $Z\rightarrow b\bar{b}$ final states in association with a leptonically decaying $V$ ($Z$ or $W$) and $W$-only respectively, is proposed. It is argued that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 You-Ying Li , Rosy Nicolaidou , Stathes Paganis

A search for high-mass resonances decaying into a $\tau$-lepton and a neutrino using proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV is presented. The full Run 2 data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-27 ATLAS Collaboration