Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons
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Journal Article
Abstract
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate.
The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between (50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL’s benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP’s sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.
The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between (50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL’s benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP’s sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.
Date Issued
2019-04
Date Acceptance
2019-04-01
Citation
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019, 77 (4), pp.1-20
ISSN
1029-8479
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Start Page
1
End Page
20
Journal / Book Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume
77
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-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
Fixed target experiments
PROCESSES INVOLVING NEUTRINOS
MAJORANA NEUTRINOS
STERILE NEUTRINOS
GENERAL-THEORY
DARK-MATTER
SEARCH
DECAYS
MASSES
BOUNDS
VMSM
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 077
Date Publish Online
2019-04-09