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We discuss the future prospects of heavy neutrino searches at next generation lepton colliders. In particular, we focus on the planned electron-positron colliders, operating in two different beam modes, namely, $e^+e^-$ and $e^-e^-$. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-07 Shankha Banerjee , P. S. Bhupal Dev , Alejandro Ibarra , Tanumoy Mandal , Manimala Mitra

Because of a luminosity of up to five orders of magnitude larger than at LEP, electroweak precision measurements at the FCC-ee -- the Future Circular Collider with electron-positron beams -- would provide improvements by orders of magnitude…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-01-18 Mogens Dam

Recent measurements of electroweak phenomena from the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are summarized. The standard model of particle physics was tested through highly precise determinations of its key…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-16 Cristina-Andreea Alexe

We explore the ability of the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of the W boson. We believe that a precision better than ~ 15 MeV could be attained, based on a year of operation at low luminosity (10^(33)cm^(-2)s^(-1)). If this is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Keller , J. Womersley

A search is presented for a right-handed W boson (W$_\mathrm{R}$) and a heavy neutrino (N), in a final state consisting of two same-flavor leptons (ee or $\mu\mu$) and two quarks. The search is performed with the CMS experiment at the CERN…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-16 CMS Collaboration

We study the capabilities of future electron-positron Linear Colliders, with centre-of-mass energy at the TeV scale, in accessing the parameter space of a $Z'$ boson within the minimal $B-L$ model. In such a model, wherein the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Lorenzo Basso , Alexander Belyaev , Stefano Moretti , Giovanni Marco Pruna

We explore the ability of the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of the W boson. We believe that a precision better than 15 MeV could be attained, based on a year of operation at low luminosity (10^{33} cm^-2 s^-1). If this is true,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 S. Keller , J. Womersley

The precise determination of the $W$ boson mass, $m_W$, is a cornerstone of electroweak precision tests and a critical input to global fits of the Standard Model (SM). While most existing measurements of $m_W$ are in agreement with SM…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-11 Maarten Boonekamp , Matthias Schott , Chen Wang

Precise measurements of the lepton properties provide stringent tests of the Standard Model and accurate determinations of its parameters. We overview the present status of tau physics, highlighting the most recent developments, and discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Antonio Pich

The total $W$-boson decay width $\Gamma_W$ is an important observable which allows testing of the standard model. The current world average value is based on direct measurements of final state kinematic properties of $W$-boson decays, and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-01 Stefano Camarda , Jakub Cuth , Matthias Schott

Electroweak Precision Measurements are stringent tests of the Standard Model and sensitive probes to New Physics. Accurate studies of the Z-boson couplings to the first-generation quarks could reveal potential discrepancies between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Krzysztof Mękała , Daniel Jeans , Junping Tian , Jürgen Reuter , Aleksander Filip Żarnecki

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

Because muons connect directly to a standard-model Higgs particle in s-channel production, a muon collider would be an ideal device for precision measurement of the mass and width of a Higgs-like particle, and for further exploration of its…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 D. Neuffer , M. Palmer , Y. Alexahin , C. Ankenbrandt , J. P. Delahaye

A low-mass right-handed neutrino could interact with electroweak bosons via mixing, a mediator particle, or loop corrections. Using an effective field theory, we determine constraints on these interactions from $W$-boson measurements at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Rodrigo Alonso , Sam Bates , Chris Hays , Chris Pollard , Michael Spannowsky

The potential of muon colliders to address fundamental physics issues is explored, with emphasis on understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. The $s$-channel production of Higgs bosons, unique to a muon collider, along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Barger

At LEP2 many Standard Model predictions are tested up to centre-of-mass energies of 209 GeV. Fermion pair production cross sections and asymmetries agree well with the theoretical expectation over the entire energy range. The measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Wynhoff

The threshold scan at future lepton colliders is the most precise known method to determine the top quark mass (well below 100 MeV), a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model that co-determines the stability properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-12 Jürgen Reuter , Bijan Chokoufé Nejad , Andre Hoang , Wolfgang Kilian , Maximilian Stahlhofen , Thomas Teubner , Christian Weiss

It is argued that the next linear colliders can serve as W factories that may be exploited for precision tests on the properties of the massive gauge bosons. The connection between the probing of the symmetry breaking sector and precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 F. Boudjema

Muon colliders are an exciting possibility for reaching the highest energies possible on the shortest timescale. They potentially combine the greatest strengths of $e^+e^-$ and $pp$ colliders by bridging the energy versus precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Matthew Forslund , Patrick Meade

We study the sensitivity reach to probe the electroweak dipole operators associated with a top quark at a multi-TeV lepton collider. Studying the electroweak dipole operators is strongly motivated by precision physics. The operators exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-20 Tao Han , Da Liu , Si Wang