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Candia, P.; Cottin, G.; Mendez, A.; Muñoz, V. |
Title |
Searching for light long lived neutralinos at Super-Kamiokande |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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104 |
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5 |
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055024 - 11pp |
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Light neutralinos could be copiously produced from the decays of mesons generated in cosmic-ray air showers. These neutralinos can be long-lived particles in the context of R-parity violating (RPV) supersymmetric models, implying that they could be capable of reaching the surface of the earth and decay within the instrumental volume of large neutrino detectors. In this article, we use atmospheric neutrino data from the Super-Kamiokande experiment to derive novel constraints for the RPV couplings involved in the production of long-lived light neutralinos from the decays of charged D-mesons and kaons. Our results highlight the potential of neutrino detectors to search for long-lived particles, by demonstrating that it is possible to explore regions of parameter space that are not yet constrained by any fixed-target nor collider experiments. |
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[Candia, Pablo] Univ Manchester, Consortium Fundamental Phys, Sch Phys & Astron, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England, Email: pablo.candiadasilva@manchester.ac.uk; |
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2470-0010 |
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WOS:000704619500005 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4990 |
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Cottin, G.; Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Titov, A.; Wang, Z.S. |
Title |
Heavy neutral leptons in effective field theory and the high-luminosity LHC |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2021 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
Issue |
9 |
Pages |
039 - 34pp |
Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Neutrino Physics |
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Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) with masses around the electroweak scale are expected to be rather long-lived particles, as a result of the observed smallness of the active neutrino masses. In this work, we study long-lived HNLs in NRSMEFT, a Standard Model (SM) extension with singlet fermions to which we add non-renormalizable operators up to dimension-6. Operators which contain two HNLs can lead to a sizable enhancement of the production cross sections, compared to the minimal case where HNLs are produced only via their mixing with the SM neutrinos. We calculate the expected sensitivities for the ATLAS detector and the future far-detector experiments: AL3X, ANUBIS, CODEX-b, FASER, MATHUSLA, and MoEDAL-MAPP in this setup. The sensitive ranges of the HNL mass and of the active-heavy mixing angle are much larger than those in the minimal case. We study both, Dirac and Majorana, HNLs and discuss how the two cases actually differ phenomenologically, for HNL masses above roughly 100 GeV. |
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[Cottin, Giovanna] Univ Adolfo Ibanez, Fac Artes Liberales, Dept Ciencias, Diagonal Las Torres 2640, Santiago, Chile, Email: giovanna.cottin@uai.cl; |
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1029-8479 |
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WOS:000694840800001 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4970 |
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Beltran, R.; Cottin, G.; Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Titov, A.; Wang, Z.S. |
Title |
Long-lived heavy neutral leptons at the LHC: four-fermion single-N-R operators |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2022 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
01 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
044 - 18pp |
Keywords |
Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Neutrino Physics |
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Interest in searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario, HNLs are produced and decay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM) spectrum. However, many SM extensions with HNLs have been discussed in the literature, which sometimes change expectations for LHC sensitivities drastically. In the N-R SMEFT, one extends the SM effective field theory with operators including SM singlet fermions, which allows to study HNL phenomenology in a “model independent” way. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of ATLAS to HNLs in the N-R SMEFT for four-fermion operators with a single HNL. These operators might dominate both production and decay of HNLs, and we find that new physics scales in excess of 20 TeV could be probed at the high-luminosity LHC. |
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[Beltran, Rebeca; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: rebeca.beltran@ifis.uv.es; |
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WOS:000742012500001 |
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yes |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5079 |
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Beltran, R.; Cottin, G.; Hirsch, M.; Titov, A.; Wang, Z.S. |
Title |
Reinterpretation of searches for long-lived particles from meson decays |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
05 |
Issue |
5 |
Pages |
031 - 31pp |
Keywords |
New Light Particles; Axions and ALPs; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos; SMEFT |
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Many models beyond the Standard Model predict light and feebly interacting particles that are often long-lived. These long-lived particles (LLPs) in many cases can be produced from meson decays. In this work, we propose a simple and quick reinterpretation method for models predicting LLPs produced from meson decays. With the method, we are not required to run Monte-Carlo simulation, implement detector geometries and efficiencies, or apply experimental cuts in an event analysis, as typically done in recasting and reinterpretation works. The main ingredients our method requires are only the theoretical input, allowing for computation of the production and decay rates of the LLPs. There are two conditions for the method to work: firstly, the LLPs in the models considered should be produced from a set of mesons with similar mass and lifetime (or the same meson) and second, the LLPs should, in general, have a lab-frame decay length much larger than the distance between the interaction point and the detector. As an example, we use this method to reinterpret exclusion bounds on heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) in the minimal “3+1” scenario, into those for HNLs in the general effective-field-theory framework as well as for axion-like particles. We are able to reproduce existing results, and obtain new bounds via reinterpretation of past experimental results, in particular, from CHARM and Belle. |
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[Beltran, Rebeca; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, CSIC, 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: wzs@mx.nthu.edu.tw |
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WOS:000983316500002 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5528 |
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Beltran, R.; Cottin, G.; Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Titov, A.; Wang, Z.S. |
Title |
Long-lived heavy neutral leptons from mesons in effective field theory |
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Journal Article |
Year |
2023 |
Publication |
Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
Volume |
01 |
Issue |
1 |
Pages |
015 - 38pp |
Keywords |
New Light Particles; SMEFT; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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In the framework of the low-energy effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), we calculate the production rates of HNLs from meson decays triggered by dimension-six operators. We consider both lepton number-conserving and lepton-number-violating four-fermion operators involving either a pair of HNLs or a single HNL. Assuming that HNLs are long-lived, we perform simulations and investigate the reach of the proposed far detectors at the high-luminosity LHC to (i) active-heavy neutrino mixing and (ii) the Wilson coefficients associated with the effective operators, for HNL masses below the mass of the B-meson. We further convert the latter to the associated new-physics scales. Our results show that scales in excess of hundreds of TeV and the active-heavy mixing squared as small as 10(-15 )can be probed by these experiments. |
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[Beltran, Rebeca; Hirsch, Martin] Univ Valencia, AHEP Grp, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Apartado 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: rebeca.beltran@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000909520000005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5455 |
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