Published November 11, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Heavy neutrinos and lepton number violation in lp colliders

  • 1. Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC), Universite Paris 7/CNRS, 10 rue A. Domon et L. Duquet, 75205 Paris Cedex 13 (France)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Foehringer Ring 6, 80805 Muenchen (Germany)
  • 3. INFN Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131, Padova (Italy)
  • 4. Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid (Spain)
  • 5. CERN Physics Department, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)

Description

We discuss the prospects of studying lepton number violating processes in order to identify Majorana neutrinos from low scale seesaw mechanisms at lepton-proton colliders. In particular, we consider the scenarios of colliding electrons with LHC energy protons and, motivated by the efforts towards the construction of a muon collider, the prospects of muon-proton collisions. We find that present constraints on the mixing of the Majorana neutrinos still allow for a detectable signal at these kind of facilities given the smallness of the Standard Model background. We discuss possible cuts in order to further increase the signal over background ratio and the prospects of reconstructing the neutrino mass from the kinematics of the final state particles.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.021

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.021;
arXiv
arXiv:1105.0308v1;
PII
S0550-3213(11)00371-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
852
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 353-365
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

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