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Herrero-Garcia, J.; Rius, N.; Santamaria, A. |
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Higgs lepton flavour violation: UV completions and connection to neutrino masses |
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2016 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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11 |
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11 |
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084 - 45pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Neutrino Physics |
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We study lepton violating Higgs (HLFV) decays, first from the effective field theory (EFT) point of view, and then analysing the different high-energy realizations of the operators of the EFT, highlighting the most promising models. We argue why two Higgs doublet models can have a BR(h -> tau mu) similar to 0:01, and why this rate is suppressed in all other realizations including vector-like leptons. We further discuss HLFV in the context of neutrino mass models: in most cases it is generated at one loop giving always BR (h -> tau mu) < 10(-4) and typically much less, which is beyond experimental reach. However, both the Zee model and extended left-right symmetric models contain extra SU(2) doublets coupled to leptons and could in principle account for the observed excess, with interesting connections between HLFV and neutrino parameters. |
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[Herrero-Garcia, Juan] KTH Royal Inst Technol, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Sch Engn Sci, Dept Theoret Phys, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: juhg@kth.se; |
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Escudero, M.; Rius, N.; Sanz, V. |
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Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1)(B-L) case |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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02 |
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2 |
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045 - 27pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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In this paper we explore the possibility that the sterile neutrino and Dark Matter sectors in the Universe have a common origin. We study the consequences of this assumption in the simple case of coupling the dark sector to the Standard Model via a global U(1)(B-L), broken down spontaneously by a dark scalar. This dark scalar provides masses to the dark fermions and communicates with the Higgs via a Higgs portal coupling. We find an interesting interplay between Dark Matter annihilation to dark scalars – the CP-even that mixes with the Higgs and the CP-odd which becomes a Goldstone boson, the Majoron and heavy neutrinos, as well as collider probes via the coupling to the Higgs. Moreover, Dark Matter annihilation into sterile neutrinos and its subsequent decay to gauge bosons and quarks, charged leptons or neutrinos lead to indirect detection signatures which are close to current bounds on the gamma ray flux from the galactic center and dwarf galaxies. |
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[Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: miguel.escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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Bonilla, C.; Krauss, M.E.; Opferkuch, T.; Porod, W. |
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Perspectives for detecting lepton flavour violation in left-right symmetric models |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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027 - 50pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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We investigate lepton flavour violation in a class of minimal left-right symmetric models where the left-right symmetry is broken by triplet scalars. In this context we present a method to consistently calculate the triplet-Yukawa couplings which takes into account the experimental data while simultaneously respecting the underlying symmetries. Analysing various scenarios, we then calculate the full set of tree-level and one-loop contributions to all radiative and three-body flavour-violating fully leptonic decays as well as well as μ- e conversion in nuclei. Our method illustrates how these processes depend on the underlying parameters of the theory. To that end we observe that, for many choices of the model parameters, there is a strong complementarity between the different observables. For instance, in a large part of the parameter space, lepton flavour violating T-decays have a large enough branching ratio to be measured in upcoming experiments. Our results further show that experiments coming online in the immediate future, like Mu3e and BELLE II, or longer-term, such as PRISM/PRIME, will probe significant portions of the currently allowed parameter space. |
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[Bonilla, Cesar] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, AHEP Grp, Edificio Inst Paterna, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: cesar.bonilla@ific.uv.es; |
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Salvado, J.; Mena, O.; Palomares-Ruiz, S.; Rius, N. |
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Non-standard interactions with high-energy atmospheric neutrinos at IceCube |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
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1 |
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141 - 30pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Solar and Atmospheric Neutrinos |
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Non-standard interactions in the propagation of neutrinos in matter can lead to significant deviations from expectations within the standard neutrino oscillation framework and atmospheric neutrino detectors have been considered to set constraints. However, most previous works have focused on relatively low-energy atmospheric neutrino data. Here, we consider the one-year high-energy through-going muon data in IceCube, which has been already used to search for light sterile neutrinos, to constrain new interactions in the μtau-sector. In our analysis we include several systematic uncertainties on both, the atmospheric neutrino flux and on the detector properties, which are accounted for via nuisance parameters. After considering different primary cosmic-ray spectra and hadronic interaction models, we improve over previous analysis by using the latest data and showing that systematics currently affect very little the bound on the off-diagonal epsilon(mu tau), with the 90% credible interval given by -6.0 x 10(-3) < epsilon(mu tau) < 5.4 x 10(-3), comparable to previous results. In addition, we also estimate the expected sensitivity after 10 years of collected data in IceCube and study the precision at which non-standard parameters could be determined for the case of epsilon(mu tau) near its current bound. |
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[Salvado, Jordi; Mena, Olga; Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, Aparlado Correos 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: jsalvado@ific.uv.es; |
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Gonzalez, L.; Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Kovalenko, S.G. |
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Scalar-mediated double beta decay and LHC |
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2016 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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130 - 15pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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The decay rate of neutrinoless double beta (0 nu beta beta) decay could be dominated by Lepton Number Violating (LNV) short-range diagrams involving only heavy scalar intermediate particles, known as “topology-II” diagrams. Examples are diagrams with diquarks, leptoquarks or charged scalars. Here, we compare the LNV discovery potentials of the LHC and 0 nu beta beta-decay experiments, resorting to three example models, which cover the range of the optimistic-pessimistic cases for 0 nu beta beta decay. We use the LHC constraints from dijet as well as leptoquark searches and find that already with 20/fb the LHC will test interesting parts of the parameter space of these models, not excluded by the current limits on 0 nu beta beta-decay. |
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[Gonzalez, L.; Helo, J. C.; Kovalenko, S. G.] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Casilla 110-5, Valparaiso, Chile, Email: lorena.gonzalez@alumnos.usm.cl; |
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Alcaide, J.; Das, D.; Santamaria, A. |
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A model of neutrino mass and dark matter with large neutrinoless double beta decay |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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049 - 21pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics; Neutrino Physics |
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We propose a model where neutrino masses are generated at three loop order but neutrinoless double beta decay occurs at one loop. Thus we can have large neutrinoless double beta decay observable in the future experiments even when the neutrino masses are very small. The model receives strong constraints from the neutrino data and lepton flavor violating decays, which substantially reduces the number of free parameters. Our model also opens up the possibility of having several new scalars below the TeV regime, which can be explored at the collider experiments. Additionally, our model also has an unbroken Z(2) symmetry which allows us to identify a viable Dark Matter candidate. |
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[Alcaide, Julien] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: julien.alcaide@uv.es; |
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Farzan, Y.; Tortola, M. |
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Neutrino oscillations and non-standard Interactions |
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2018 |
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Frontiers in Physics |
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Front. Physics |
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6 |
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10 - 34pp |
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neutrino oscillations; leptonic CP violation; non-standard neutrino interactions; neutrino masses; neutrino physics |
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Current neutrino experiments are measuring the neutrino mixing parameters with an unprecedented accuracy. The upcoming generation of neutrino experiments will be sensitive to subdominant neutrino oscillation effects that can in principle give information on the yet-unknown neutrino parameters: the Dirac CP-violating phase in the PMNS mixing matrix, the neutrino mass ordering and the octant of.23. Determining the exact values of neutrino mass and mixing parameters is crucial to test various neutrino models and flavor symmetries that are designed to predict these neutrino parameters. In the first part of this review, we summarize the current status of the neutrino oscillation parameter determination. We consider the most recent data from all solar neutrino experiments and the atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande, IceCube, and ANTARES. We also implement the data from the reactor neutrino experiments KamLAND, Daya Bay, RENO, and Double Chooz as well as the long baseline neutrino data from MINOS, T2K, and NO.A. If in addition to the standard interactions, neutrinos have subdominant yet-unknown Non-Standard Interactions (NSI) with matter fields, extracting the values of these parameters will suffer from new degeneracies and ambiguities. We review such effects and formulate the conditions on the NSI parameters under which the precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters can be distorted. Like standard weak interactions, the non-standard interaction can be categorized into two groups: Charged Current (CC) NSI and Neutral Current (NC) NSI. Our focus will bemainly on neutral current NSI because it is possible to build a class of models that give rise to sizeable NC NSI with discernible effects on neutrino oscillation. These models are based on new U(1) gauge symmetry with a gauge boson of mass. 10 MeV. The UV complete model should be of course electroweak invariant which in general implies that along with neutrinos, charged fermions also acquire new interactions on which there are strong bounds. We enumerate the bounds that already exist on the electroweak symmetric models and demonstrate that it is possible to build viable models avoiding all these bounds. In the end, we review methods to test these models and suggest approaches to break the degeneracies in deriving neutrino mass parameters caused by NSI. |
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[Farzan, Yasaman] Inst Res Fundamental Sci, Sch Phys, Tehran, Iran, Email: mariam@ific.uv.es |
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Reig, M.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C.A. |
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Three-family left-right symmetry with low-scale seesaw mechanism |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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05 |
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5 |
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100 - 10pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Guage Symmetry; Neutrino Physics |
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We suggest a new left-right symmetric model implementing a low-scale see-saw mechanism in which quantum consistency requires three families of fermions. The symmetry breaking route to the Standard Model determines the profile of the “next” expected new physics, characterized either by the simplest left-right gauge symmetry or by the 3-3-1 scenario. The resulting Z' gauge bosons can be probed at the LHC and provide a production portal for the right-handed neutrinos. On the other hand, its flavor changing interactions would affect the K, D and B neutral meson systems. |
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[Reig, Mario; Valle, Jose W. F.; Vaquera-Araujo, C. A.] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parc Cient Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: mareiglo@alumni.uv.es; |
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Gariazzo, S.; Giunti, C.; Laveder, M.; Li, Y.F. |
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Updated global 3+1 analysis of short-baseline neutrino oscillations |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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06 |
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6 |
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135 - 38pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Beyond Standard Model |
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We present the results of an updated fit of short-baseline neutrino oscillation data in the framework of 3+1 active-sterile neutrino mixing. We first consider v(e) and (v) over bar (e) disappearance in the light of the Gallium and reactor anomalies. We discuss the implications of the recent measurement of the reactor (v) over bar (e) spectrum in the NEOS experiment, which shifts the allowed regions of the parameter space towards smaller values of |U-e1|(2). The beta-decay constraints of the Mainz and Troitsk experiments allow us to limit the oscillation length between about 2 cm and 7 m at 3 sigma for neutrinos with an energy of 1 MeV. The corresponding oscillations can be discovered in a model-independent way in ongoing reactor and source experiments by measuring v(e) and (v) over bar (e), disappearance as a function of distance. We then consider the global fit of the data on short-baseline v(mu)((-)) -> v(e)((-)) transitions in the light of the LSND anomaly, taking into account the constraints from v(e)(( )) and v(mu)((-)) disappearance experiments, including the recent data of the MINOS and IceCube experiments. The combination of the NEOS constraints on |U-e4|(2) and the MINOS and IceCube constraints on |U-mu 4|(2) lead to an unacceptable appearance-disappearance tension which becomes tolerable only in a pragmatic fit which neglects the MiniBooNE low-energy anomaly. The minimization of the global chi(2) in the space of the four mixing parameters Delta m(41)(2), |U-e4|(2), |U-mu 4|(2) and |U-4 tau|(2) leads to three allowed regions with narrow Delta m(41)(2) widths at Delta m(41)(2) approximate to 1.7 (best-fit), 1.3 (at 2 sigma), 2.4 (at 3 sigma) eV(2). The effective amplitude of short-baseline v(mu)((-)) -> v(e)((-)) oscillations is limited by 0.00048 less than or similar to sin(2) 2 nu(e mu) less than or similar to 0.0020 at 3 sigma The restrictions of the allowed regions of the mixing parameters with respect to our previous global fits are mainly due to the NEOS constraints. We present a comparison of the allowed regions of the mixing parameters with the sensitivities of ongoing experiments, which show that it is likely that these experiments will determine in a definitive way if the reactor, Gallium and LSND anomalies are due to active-sterile neutrino oscillations or not. |
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[Gariazzo, S.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpusc, Valencia, Spain, Email: gariazzo@ific.uv.es; |
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Caputo, A.; Hernandez, P.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Salvado, J. |
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The seesaw portal in testable models of neutrino masses |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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A Standard Model extension with two Majorana neutrinos can explain the measured neutrino masses and mixings, and also account for the matter-antimatter asymmetry in a region of parameter space that could be testable in future experiments. The testability of the model relies to some extent on its minimality. In this paper we address the possibility that the model might be extended by extra generic new physics which we parametrize in terms of a low-energy effective theory. We consider the effects of the operators of the lowest dimensionality, d = 5, and evaluate the upper bounds on the coefficients so that the predictions of the minimal model are robust. One of the operators gives a new production mechanism for the heavy neutrinos at LHC via higgs decays. The higgs can decay to a pair of such neutrinos that, being long-lived, leave a powerful signal of two displaced vertices. We estimate the LHC reach to this process. |
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[Caputo, A.; Hernandez, P.; Salvado, J.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpusc, Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Valencia 46980, Spain, Email: andrea.caputo@cern.ch; |
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