Publication Date

2021

Journal or Book Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

Abstract

We study the prospects of a displaced-vertex search of sterile neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the framework of the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory (nu SMEFT). The production and decay of sterile neutrinos can proceed via the standard active-sterile neutrino mixing in the weak current, as well as through higher-dimensional operators arising from decoupled new physics. If sterile neutrinos are long-lived, their decay can lead to displaced vertices which can be reconstructed. We investigate the search sensitivities for the ATLAS/CMS detector, the future far-detector experiments: AL3X, ANUBIS, CODEX-b, FASER, MATHUSLA, and MoEDAL-MAPP, and at the proposed fixed-target experiment SHiP. We study scenarios where sterile neutrinos are predominantly produced via rare charm and bottom mesons decays through minimal mixing and/or dimension-six operators in the nu SMEFT Lagrangian. We perform simulations to determine the potential reach of high-luminosity LHC experiments in probing the EFT operators, finding that these experiments are very competitive with other searches.

ISSN

1029-8479

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)148

Issue

3

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Funder

Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) of TaiwanMinistry of Science and Technology, Taiwan [MoST-109-2811-M-007-509]; Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning of Korea; Pohang City Government; Gyeongsangbuk-do Provincial Government through the Young Scientist Training Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation program of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics; BMBFFederal Ministry of Education & Research (BMBF) [05H18PDCA1]

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