Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in Same-Sign Dilepton Channels in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics 2019
Viesturs Veckalns, et al 100

A search is performed for a heavy Majorana neutrino (N), produced in leptonic decay of a W boson propagator and decaying into a W boson and a lepton, with the CMS detector at the LHC. The signature used in this search consists of two same-sign leptons, in any flavor combination of electrons and muons, and at least one jet. The data were collected during 2016 in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The results are found to be consistent with the expected standard model background. Upper limits are set in the mass range between 20 and 1600 GeV in the context of a Type-I seesaw mechanism, on |VeN|2, |VμN|2, and |VeNVμN*|2/(|VeN|2 + |VμN|2), where VℓN is the matrix element describing the mixing of N with the standard model neutrino of flavor ℓ = e, μ. For N masses between 20 and 1600 GeV, the upper limits on |VℓN|2 range between 2.3 × 10−5 and unity. These are the most restrictive direct limits for heavy Majorana neutrino masses above 430 GeV.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]


Keywords
Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
DOI
10.1007/JHEP01(2019)122
Hyperlink
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP01%282019%29122

Veckalns, V., 100, e. Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos in Same-Sign Dilepton Channels in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019, Vol. 2019, No. 1, pp.1-10. ISSN 1126-6708. e-ISSN 1029-8479. Available from: doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2019)122

Publication language
English (en)
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