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Heavy neutrinos, a key prediction of many standard model extensions, remain some of the most searched-for objects at collider experiments. In this context, we revisit the premise that the gluon fusion production mechanism, $gg \to Z^*/h^*…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-29 Richard Ruiz , Michael Spannowsky , Philip Waite

We discuss the prospects of studying lepton number violating processes in order to identify Majorana neutrinos from low scale seesaw mechanisms at lepton-proton colliders. In particular, we consider the scenarios of colliding electrons with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-14 Carl Blaksley , Mattias Blennow , Florian Bonnet , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez

The existence of the neutrino masses and mixing would be an important window into the nature of physics beyond the Standard Model, which will be searched for in the forthcoming experiments such as LHC. In this talk, we discuss some examples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Eung Jin Chun

A search for heavy neutral lepton ($N$) production in $\pi^+\to e^+ N$ in-flight decays using data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017-2024 is reported. Upper limits for the extended neutrino mixing matrix element $|U_{e4}|^2$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-09 NA62 Collaboration

We re-analyze the results of the searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) by the CHARM experiment. We study HNL decay channel $N\to e^{+}e^{-}\nu/\mu^{+}\mu^{-}\nu$ and show that, in addition to the constraints on the HNL's mixings with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-25 Iryna Boiarska , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleksii Mikulenko , Maksym Ovchynnikov

A search is performed for heavy resonances decaying to two long-lived massive neutral particles, each decaying to leptons. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology consisting of a pair of oppositely charged leptons originating…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-14 CMS Collaboration

Heavy Neutral Leptons are popular hypothetical particles, first introduced as a way to explain neutrino oscillations, and since then extensively studied in relation to many other aspects of physics beyond the Standard Model. They also serve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Igor Krasnov

Many analyses are performed by the LHC experiments to search for heavy gauge bosons, which appear in several new physics models. The invariant mass reconstruction of heavy gauge bosons is difficult when they decay to $\tau$ leptons due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-07 Vinaya Krishnan MB , Aruna Kumar Nayak , Asrith Krishna Radhakrishnan

Several theories beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of new heavy neutral bosons. Such particles could be produced in significant amounts at the LHC and their decay into a dilepton pair provides a clean signature with low…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Laurent Thomas

A new method used to calculate the neutrino for all major tau hadronic decay event by event at the LHC is presented. It is possible because nowadays better detector description is available. With the neutrino fully reconstructed, matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Xin Chen , Yongcheng Wu

In many models incorporating the type-I seesaw mechanism, the right-handed neutrino ($N$) couples to heavy vector/scalar bosons and thereby has resonant pair production. It barely receives attention thus far, however, it may provide the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Zhaofeng Kang , P. Ko , Jinmian Li

In this study we investigate the feasibility of detecting heavy neutral leptons ($N_d$) through exotic Higgs decays at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC), specifically in the channel of $e^+ e^- \to qq~ H$ with $H\to \nu N_d…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Simon Thor , Masaya Ishino , Junping Tian

We show that the proposed Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) will provide an opportunity to search for left-right symmetry and establish lepton number violation, complementing current and planned searches based on LHC data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Manfred Lindner , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Werner Rodejohann , Carlos E. Yaguna

We present the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovery potential in the $Z'$ and heavy neutrino sectors of a $U(1)_{B-L}$ enlarged Standard Model also encompassing three heavy Majorana neutrinos. This model exhibits novel signatures at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Basso , A. Belyaev , S. Moretti , G. M. Pruna , C. H. Shepherd-Themistocleous

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

We investigate the TeV models for neutrino mass generation as candidate models to explain the recent 2$\sigma$ excess of leptonic $W^{+}W^{-}$ pair production at LHC. Several models with singly charged exotic states that may explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-07 Hui Luo , Ming-xing Luo , Kai Wang , Tao Xu , Guohuai Zhu

We propose a model with one large submm size extra dimension in which the gravity and right-handed (RH) neutrino propagate, but the three Standard Model (SM) families are confined to fat branes of TeV^(-1) size or smaller. The charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Nandi , C. M. Rujoiu

Majorana neutrinos in the seesaw model can have sizable mixings through which they can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and show a remarkable Lepton Number Violating (LNV) signature. In this article we study the LNV decay of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Gorazd Cvetic , Arindam Das , Sebastian Tapia , Jilberto Zamora-Saa

We study the single production of heavy neutrinos via the processes $e^-e^+ \to \nu N$ and $e^-\gamma \to W^- N$ at future linear colliders. As a base of our considerations we take a wide class of models, both with vanishing and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 J. Gluza , J. Maalampi , M. Raidal , M. Zralek

We study the possibility to observe sterile neutrinos with masses in the range between 5 GeV and 20 GeV at the LHC, using the exclusive semileptonic modes involving pions, namely W to lepton + N to n pions + lepton+lepton (n = 1, 2, 3). The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-07 Claudio O. Dib , C. S. Kim , Nicolas A. Neill , Xing-Bo Yuan