Type-III seesaw mechanism at CERN LHC

Roberto Franceschini, Thomas Hambye, and Alessandro Strumia
Phys. Rev. D 78, 033002 – Published 6 August 2008

Abstract

Neutrino masses can be generated by fermion triplets with TeV-scale mass, that would manifest at LHC as production of two leptons together with two heavy standard model (SM) vectors or Higgs, giving rise to final states such as 2+4j (that can violate lepton number and/or lepton flavor) or +4j+T. We devise cuts to suppress the SM backgrounds to these signatures. Furthermore, for most of the mass range suggested by neutrino data, triplet decays are detectably displaced from the production point, allowing to infer the neutrino mass parameters. We compare with LHC signals of type-I and type-II seesaw.

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  • Received 4 June 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.033002

©2008 American Physical Society

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Roberto Franceschini1, Thomas Hambye2, and Alessandro Strumia3

  • 1Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa, Italy
  • 2Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pisa and INFN, Pisa, Italy

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Vol. 78, Iss. 3 — 1 August 2008

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