Published August 1, 2008 | Version v1
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.

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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

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society