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Title: Leptonic scalars at the LHC

Abstract

We explore the collider prospects of neutrino non-standard interaction with a Standard Model (SM) gauge-singlet leptonic scalar ϕ carrying two units of lepton-number-charge. These leptonic scalars are forbidden from interacting with the SM fermions at the renormalizable level and, if one allows for higher-dimensional operators, couple predominantly to SM neutrinos. For masses at or below the electroweak scale, ϕ decays exclusively into neutrinos. Its characteristic production signature at hadron collider experiments like the LHC would be via the vector boson fusion process and leads to same-sign dileptons, two forward jets in opposite hemispheres, and missing transverse energy, i.e.,$$$$ pp\to {\mathrm{\ell}}_{\alpha}^{\pm }{\mathrm{\ell}}_{\beta}^{\pm } jj+{E}_T^{\mathrm{miss}}\left(\alpha, \beta =e,\mu, \tau \right) $$$$ pp α ± β ± jj+ E T miss α β = e μ τ . Exploiting the final states of electrons and muons, we estimate, for the first time, the sensitivity of the LHC to these lepton-number-charged scalars. We show that the LHC sensitivity is largely complementary to that of low-energy precision measurements of the decays of charged leptons, charged mesons,W,Zand the SM Higgs boson, as well as the neutrino beam experiments like MINOS, and searches for neutrino self-interactions at IceCube and in cosmological observations. For ϕ mass larger than roughly 10 GeV, our projected LHC sensitivity would surpass all existing bounds.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [2]
  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States). McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. Dept. of Physics
  3. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Mitchell Inst. for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy
  4. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  5. Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States); Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States); Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1800825
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1598865
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-95ER40896; SC0010143; SC0010504; SC0010813; SC0017987; AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2020; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Physics; Neutrino Self-interactions; Leptonic Scalars; Large Hadron Collider; physics; neutrino self-interactions; leptonic scalars; large hadron collider

Citation Formats

de Gouvêa, André, Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Tathagata, Han, Tao, and Zhang, Yongchao. Leptonic scalars at the LHC. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep07(2020)142.
de Gouvêa, André, Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Tathagata, Han, Tao, & Zhang, Yongchao. Leptonic scalars at the LHC. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2020)142
de Gouvêa, André, Dev, P. S. Bhupal, Dutta, Bhaskar, Ghosh, Tathagata, Han, Tao, and Zhang, Yongchao. Tue . "Leptonic scalars at the LHC". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2020)142. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1800825.
@article{osti_1800825,
title = {Leptonic scalars at the LHC},
author = {de Gouvêa, André and Dev, P. S. Bhupal and Dutta, Bhaskar and Ghosh, Tathagata and Han, Tao and Zhang, Yongchao},
abstractNote = {We explore the collider prospects of neutrino non-standard interaction with a Standard Model (SM) gauge-singlet leptonic scalar ϕ carrying two units of lepton-number-charge. These leptonic scalars are forbidden from interacting with the SM fermions at the renormalizable level and, if one allows for higher-dimensional operators, couple predominantly to SM neutrinos. For masses at or below the electroweak scale, ϕ decays exclusively into neutrinos. Its characteristic production signature at hadron collider experiments like the LHC would be via the vector boson fusion process and leads to same-sign dileptons, two forward jets in opposite hemispheres, and missing transverse energy, i.e.,$$ pp\to {\mathrm{\ell}}_{\alpha}^{\pm }{\mathrm{\ell}}_{\beta}^{\pm } jj+{E}_T^{\mathrm{miss}}\left(\alpha, \beta =e,\mu, \tau \right) $$pp→ℓα±ℓβ±jj+ETmissαβ=eμτ. Exploiting the final states of electrons and muons, we estimate, for the first time, the sensitivity of the LHC to these lepton-number-charged scalars. We show that the LHC sensitivity is largely complementary to that of low-energy precision measurements of the decays of charged leptons, charged mesons,W,Zand the SM Higgs boson, as well as the neutrino beam experiments like MINOS, and searches for neutrino self-interactions at IceCube and in cosmological observations. For ϕ mass larger than roughly 10 GeV, our projected LHC sensitivity would surpass all existing bounds.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep07(2020)142},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 7,
volume = 2020,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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