Published August 1, 2008
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Journal article
Type-III seesaw mechanism at CERN LHC
- 1. Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa (Italy)
- 2. Service de Physique Theorique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles (Belgium)
- 3. Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita di Pisa and INFN, Pisa (Italy)
Description
Neutrino masses can be generated by fermion triplets with TeV-scale mass, that would manifest at LHC as production of two leptons together with two heavy standard model (SM) vectors or Higgs, giving rise to final states such as 2l+4j (that can violate lepton number and/or lepton flavor) or l+4j+EeT. We devise cuts to suppress the SM backgrounds to these signatures. Furthermore, for most of the mass range suggested by neutrino data, triplet decays are detectably displaced from the production point, allowing to infer the neutrino mass parameters. We compare with LHC signals of type-I and type-II seesaw.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.033002;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0805.1613v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 78
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 033002-033002.9
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41001921
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CERN LHC; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FLAVOR MODEL; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGGS MODEL; LEPTON NUMBER; LEPTONS; MASS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE DECAY; STANDARD MODEL; TEV RANGE; TRIPLETS
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; COMPOSITE MODELS; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DECAY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; EVALUATION; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPLETS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUARK MODEL; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society