Displaced heavy neutrinos from Z′ decays at the LHC

A bstract 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 LHC experiments. We explore the LHC reach with current l...

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Veröffentlicht in:The journal of high energy physics 2019-12, Vol.2019 (12), p.1-20, Article 70
Hauptverfasser: Chiang, Cheng-Wei, Cottin, Giovanna, Das, Arindam, Mandal, Sanjoy
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Zusammenfassung:A bstract 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 LHC experiments. We explore the LHC reach with current long-lived particle search strategies for either one or two displaced vertices in association with hadronic tracks or jets. We focus on two well-motivated models, namely, the minimal U(1) B−L scenario and its U(1) X extension. We find that searches for at least one displaced vertex can cover a significant portion of the parameter space, with light-heavy neutrino mixings as low as |V lN | 2 ≈ 10 − 17 , and l = e, μ accessible across GeV scale heavy neutrino masses.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP12(2019)070