Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at root s = TeV
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Journal Article
Abstract
A search is performed for a heavy Majorana neutrino (N), produced in leptonic decay of a W boson propagator and decaying into a W boson and a lepton, with the CMS detector at the LHC. The signature used in this search consists of two same-sign leptons, in any flavor combination of electrons and muons, and at least one jet. The data were collected during 2016 in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The results are found to be consistent with the expected standard model background. Upper limits are set in the mass range between 20 and 1600 GeV in the context of a Type-I seesaw mechanism, on |VeN|2, |VμN|2, and |VeNV μN * |2/(|VeN|2 + |VμN|2), where VℓN is the matrix element describing the mixing of N with the standard model neutrino of flavor ℓ = e, μ. For N masses between 20 and 1600 GeV, the upper limits on |VℓN|2 range between 2.3 × 10−5 and unity. These are the most restrictive direct limits for heavy Majorana neutrino masses above 430 GeV.
Date Issued
2019-01
Date Acceptance
2018-12-27
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019, 2019 (1)
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Journal / Book Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
2019
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© 2019 CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Beyond Standard Model
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
LEPTON NUMBER VIOLATION
DOUBLE-BETA-DECAY
DARK-MATTER
MASSES
NONCONSERVATION
MODELS
VMSM
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
122
Date Publish Online
2019-01-15