@Article{Cottin_etal2018,
author="Cottin, G.
and Helo, J. C.
and Hirsch, M.",
title="Displaced vertices as probes of sterile neutrino mixing at the LHC",
journal="Physical Review D",
year="2018",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="98",
number="3",
pages="035012--6pp",
abstract="We investigate the reach at the LHC to probe light sterile neutrinos with displaced vertices. We focus on sterile neutrinos N with masses m(N) similar to (5-30) GeV that are produced in rare decays of the standard model gauge bosons and decay inside the inner trackers of the LHC detectors. With a strategy that triggers on the prompt lepton accompanying the N displaced vertex and considers charged tracks associated with it, we show that the 13 TeV LHC with 3000/fb is able to probe active-sterile neutrino mixings down to vertical bar V-lN vertical bar(2) approximate to 10(-9), with l = e, mu, which is an improvement of up to 4 orders of magnitude when comparing with current experimental limits from trileptons and proposed lepton-jets searches. In the case when tau mixing is present, mixing angles as low as vertical bar V-tau N vertical bar(2) approximate to 10(-8) can be accessed.",
optnote="WOS:000441109800001",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3684), last updated on Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:07:55 +0000",
issn="2470-0010",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035012",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05191",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.035012",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1806.05191",
language="English"
}