Signature of heavy Majorana neutrinos at a linear collider: Enhanced charged Higgs pair production
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (United States)
- Physics Department, Technion-Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000 (Israel)
- Theory Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
A charged Higgs pair can be produced at an ee collider through a t-channel exchange of a heavy neutrino (N) via e{sup +}e{sup -}{yields}H{sup +}H{sup -} and, if N is a Majorana particle, also via the lepton number violating (LNV) like-sign reaction e{sup {+-}}e{sup {+-}}{yields}H{sup {+-}}H{sup {+-}}. Assuming no a priori relation between the effective eNH{sup +} coupling ({xi}) and light neutrino masses, we show that this interaction vertex can give a striking enhancement to these charged Higgs pair production processes. In particular, the LNV H{sup -}H{sup -} signal can probe N at the International Linear Collider (ILC) in the mass range 100 GeV < or approx. m{sub N} < or approx. 10{sup 4} TeV and with the effective mixing angle {xi} in the range 10{sup -4} < or approx. {xi}{sup 2} < or approx. 10{sup -8}--well within its perturbative unitarity bound and the {beta}{beta}{sub 0{nu}} limit. The lepton number conserving e{sup +}e{sup -}{yields}H{sup +}H{sup -} mode can be sensitive to, e.g., an O(10) TeV heavy Majorana neutrino at a 500 GeV ILC, if {xi}{sup 2} > or approx. 0.001.
- OSTI ID:
- 21027491
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.033004; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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