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Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector

The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model (SM). Heavy neutral leptons (HNL), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw mechanism. If they exist, HNL could also provide answers...

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Autor principal: Verbeke, Willem
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2317083
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description The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model (SM). Heavy neutral leptons (HNL), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw mechanism. If they exist, HNL could also provide answers about the dark matter nature, and baryon asymmetry of the universe. A search for the production of HNL at the LHC, originating from leptonic W boson decays through the mixing of the HNL with SM neutrinos, is presented. The search focuses on signatures with three leptons, providing a clean signal for probing the production of the HNL in a wide mass range never explored before at the LHC down to 1 GeV, and up to 1.2 TeV. The sample of pp collisions collected by the CMS detector throughout 2016 is used, amounting to a volume of 35.9/fb. Separated into two parts, the search is respectively optimized for finding HNL of masses above and below that of the W boson. The final results are presented in the plane of the mixing parameter of HNL to their SM counterparts, versus their mass, and are the first such result at a hadron collider for masses below 40 GeV and the first direct result for masses above 500 GeV.
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spelling cern-23170832019-12-18T03:51:36Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2317083engVerbeke, WillemSearch for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detectorDetectors and Experimental Techniqueshep-exParticle Physics - ExperimentThe smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model (SM). Heavy neutral leptons (HNL), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw mechanism. If they exist, HNL could also provide answers about the dark matter nature, and baryon asymmetry of the universe. A search for the production of HNL at the LHC, originating from leptonic W boson decays through the mixing of the HNL with SM neutrinos, is presented. The search focuses on signatures with three leptons, providing a clean signal for probing the production of the HNL in a wide mass range never explored before at the LHC down to 1 GeV, and up to 1.2 TeV. The sample of pp collisions collected by the CMS detector throughout 2016 is used, amounting to a volume of 35.9/fb. Separated into two parts, the search is respectively optimized for finding HNL of masses above and below that of the W boson. The final results are presented in the plane of the mixing parameter of HNL to their SM counterparts, versus their mass, and are the first such result at a hadron collider for masses below 40 GeV and the first direct result for masses above 500 GeV.The smallness of neutrino masses provides a tantalizing allusion to physics beyond the standard model. Heavy neutral leptons ($N$), such as hypothetical sterile neutrinos, accommodate a way to explain this observation, through the see-saw mechanism. If they exist, $N$ could also provide answers about the nature of dark matter, and the baryon asymmetry of the universe. A search for the production of $N$ at the LHC, originating from leptonic W boson decays through the mixing of $N$ with SM neutrinos, is presented. The search focuses on signatures with three leptons, providing a clean signal for probing the production of $N$ in a wide mass range never explored before at the LHC: down to 1 GeV, and up to 1.2 TeV. The sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS detector throughout 2016 is used, amounting to a volume of 35.9 $\text{fb}^{-1}$. The results are presented in the plane of the mixing parameter of $N$ to their SM counterparts, versus their mass, and are the first such result at a hadron collider for masses below 40 GeV and the first direct result for masses above 500 GeV, more than doubling the probed mass range.CMS CR-2018/037CMS-CR-2018-037arXiv:1805.05084oai:cds.cern.ch:23170832018-05-02
spellingShingle Detectors and Experimental Techniques
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Verbeke, Willem
Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title_full Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title_fullStr Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title_full_unstemmed Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title_short Search for heavy neutral leptons with the CMS detector
title_sort search for heavy neutral leptons with the cms detector
topic Detectors and Experimental Techniques
hep-ex
Particle Physics - Experiment
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/2317083
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