Probing HNL-ALP couplings at colliders

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العنوان: Probing HNL-ALP couplings at colliders
المؤلفون: de Giorgi, Arturo, Merlo, Luca, Tastet, Jean-Loup
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are both well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. As ALPs couple to on-shell fermions proportionally to their masses, processes involving both types of particles may give rise, for TeV HNLs, to relevant phenomenology at colliders. In this work, we point out a particularly clean process, whose final state consists of four jets and two charged leptons, and we estimate its current and future sensitivity at the LHC. For on-shell HNLs, i) there is no dependence on the overall scale of the mixing between HNLs and the active neutrinos, making this process sensitive down to the type-I Seesaw line; ii) the signal strength of the process is sizable only as far as the HNL masses are below a few TeVs, contrary to what the proportionality to masses of the ALP couplings may suggest. Although ALPs and HNLs have been mainly studied independently in the literature, considering their interplay may lead to joint limits that are much stronger than those on the individual particles taken separately. This concise study paves the way for similar searches at colliders and other experiments.
Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1002/prop.202300027
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11290
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2212.11290
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv