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Collider imprints of a right handed neutrino magnetic moment operator

  • 1. Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul 02455, Korea
  • 2. Institute of Physics, Sachivalaya Marg, Bhubaneswar 751005, India
  • 3. Homi Bhabha National Institute, BARC Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India

Description

We consider the most general effective Lagrangian up to dimension five, built with Standard Model fields and right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) Ni. Assuming that the RHNs are present near the electroweak scale, we study the phenomenology of the RHNs and highlight the differences that arise due to the inclusion of dimension five operators. We specifically focus on the production process e+e/ppNiNj, which comes from the dimension five magnetic moment operator. We find that this production process followed by the decay chains such as NiNjγ, Niνjγ, and Ni±jj leads to striking collider signatures, which might help to probe the Majorana nature of neutrinos. We discuss the current collider constraints on this operator, as well as projected limit at future colliders. In addition, we discuss the stellar-cooling bounds applicable to the RHN mass below 0.1 GeV.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.115002;
arXiv
arXiv:2401.05174;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100024023;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
11
Journal Page Range
23 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
PG086002
Notes
Contact Email: ejchun@kias.re.kr; Contact Email: smandal@kias.re.kr; Contact Email: rojalin.p@iopb.res.in; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Korea Institute for Advanced Study