%0 Journal Article
%T Search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events from pp collisions at √s=13 TeV
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Aikot, A.
%A Amos, K. R.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Bouchhar, N.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cantero, J.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Chitishvili, M.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Didenko
%A Escobar, C.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gomez Delegido, A. J.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
%A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Miralles Lopez, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Monsonis Romero, L.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Munoz Perez, D.
%A Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Rubio Jimenez, A.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Sebastian, V.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Senthilkumar, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valiente Moreno, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Varriale, L.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2023
%V 83
%N 9
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
%O WOS:001090983200001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5789), last updated on Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:38:25 +0000
%X A search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events is presented. The analysis uses root s=13 TeV proton-proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb(-1) recorded during 2015-2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis targets final states including exactly two same-sign muons and at least two hadronic jets well separated in rapidity. The modelling of the main backgrounds, from Standard Model same-sign WW scattering and WZ production, is constrained with data in dedicated signal-depleted control regions. The distribution of the transverse momentum of the second-hardest muon is used to search for signals originating from a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass between 50 GeV and 20 TeV. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation. The results are interpreted in a benchmark scenario of the Phenomenological Type-I Seesaw model. In addition, the sensitivity to the Weinberg operator is investigated. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are placed on the squared muon-neutrino-heavy-neutrino mass-mixing matrix element |V-mu N|(2) as a function of the heavy Majorana neutrino's mass m(N), and on the effective μμMajorana neutrino mass |m(mu mu)|.
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11915-y
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14931
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11915-y
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