Searches for Heavy Neutrinos at the CMS Detector

The potential for the CMS detector to discover heavy neutrinos produced in the decays of right-handed W bosons created in proton-proton collisions with a center of mass energy of 14 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 100 pb-1 is explored. Such particles are predicted by left-right symmetric models. It is shown that, depending on the mass of the heavy neutrino, they may be discovered with a significance of 5 sigma for masses up to nearly three times the current limit on the right-handed W boson. In the absence of signal a potential limit can be set on the mass of such particles.