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We study the perspective to observe lepton number violating signatures from heavy Majorana neutrino decays at colliders in view of the requirement to explain the light neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism. In the minimal model with only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-20 Marco Drewes , Juraj Klarić , Philipp Klose

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

We examine the prospect of observing genuine lepton number violating (LNV) signals at hadron colliders in the context of the Type II seesaw mechanism. The model features smoking gun signals involving same-sign di-leptons and jets that may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Patrick D. Bolton , Jonathan Kriewald , Miha Nemevšek , Fabrizio Nesti , Juan Carlos Vasquez

The Majorana nature of neutrinos is strongly motivated from the theoretical and phenomenological point of view. A plethora of neutrino mass models, known collectively as Seesaw models, exist that could generate both a viable neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-04 Yi Cai , Tao Han , Tong Li , Richard Ruiz

We investigate possibilities for detecting heavy Majorana neutrinos ($N$'s) in $e^+e^-$ at LEP200 and future Linear Colliders. We concentrate on the processes where the pairs of intermediate heavy $N$'s produce a clear signal of total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Cvetic , C. S. Kim , C. W. Kim

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

Two classes of far detectors have been proposed or are under operation at the LHC. The first class is a series of neutrino detectors that are sensitive to light active neutrinos via either charged-current or neutral-current interactions;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-24 Ying-nan Mao , Kechen Wang , Zeren Simon Wang

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, along with its primary capacity to elucidate the nuclear structure, will offer new opportunities to probe physics beyond the Standard Model coupled to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Brian Batell , Tathagata Ghosh , Tao Han , Keping Xie

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

Extending the Standard Model (SM) with sterile ('right-handed') neutrinos is one of the best motivated ways to account for the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the expected sensitivity of future lepton collider experiments for probing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-11 Stefan Antusch , Oliver Fischer

Neutrino masses could originate in seesaw models testable at colliders, with light mediators and an approximate lepton number symmetry. The minimal model of this type contains two quasi-degenerate Majorana fermions forming a pseudo-Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Hernández , J. Jones-Pérez , O. Suarez-Navarro

A search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), the right-handed Dirac or Majorana neutrinos, is performed in final states with three charged leptons (electrons or muons) using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-27 CMS Collaboration

The neutrino masses and flavor mixings, which are missing in the Standard Model (SM), can be naturally incorporated in the type-I seesaw extension of the SM with heavy Majorana neutrinos being singlet under the SM gauge group. If the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-21 Arindam Das , Nobuchika Okada

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

We investigate if the projected high-precision measurements of the cross section of the Higgsstrahlung process $e^+ e^- \to Zh$ at a future electron-positron collider can be utilised to indirectly probe the fermionic Seesaw models. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-11 Tobias Felkl , Adam Lackner , Michael A. Schmidt

Left-right symmetric models (LRSM) were proposed to reconcile the apparent parity violation in weak interactions with our intrinsic notion of fundamental parity symmetry. It was quickly realized that LRSM offers a viable framework for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-04 Kevin A. Urquía-Calderón

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 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

We discuss the possibility of observing multi-lepton signals at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from the production and decay of heavy Standard Model (SM) singlet neutrinos added in extensions of SM to explain the observed light neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Chien-Yi Chen , P. S. Bhupal Dev

We discuss the process $\ell^+\ell^- \to N W^{\pm} \ell^{\mp}$, where $N$ is a heavy Majorana neutrino and $\ell = e, \mu$. Large cross sections are expected for these processes at high center-of-mass energies, which can be reached at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-29 E. Antonov , A. Drutskoy , M. Dubinin