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Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt and displaced signatures with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration; Бузыкаев, Алексей Рафаилович; Пелеганчук, Сергей Владимирович et al.
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T1 - Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt and displaced signatures with the ATLAS detector
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abbott, D. C.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abed Abud, A.
AU - Abeling, K.
AU - Abhayasinghe, D. K.
AU - Abidi, S. H.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abraham, N. L.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Achkar, B.
AU - Adachi, S.
AU - Adam, L.
AU - Adam Bourdarios, C.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adamek, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adorni, S.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Agaras, M. N.
AU - Aggarwal, A.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Ahmed, W. S.
AU - Anisenkov, A. V.
AU - Baldin, E. M.
AU - Beloborodov, K.
AU - Bobrovnikov, V. S.
AU - Kazanin, V. F.
AU - Kharlamov, A. G.
AU - Kharlamova, T.
AU - Maslennikov, A. L.
AU - Maximov, D. A.
AU - Podberezko, P.
AU - Rezanova, O. L.
AU - Soukharev, A. M.
AU - Talyshev, A. A.
AU - Tikhonov, Yu A.
AU - Zhulanov, V.
AU - Бузыкаев, Алексей Рафаилович
AU - Пелеганчук, Сергей Владимирович
AU - Bogdanchikov, A. G.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The problems of neutrino masses, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter could be successfully addressed by postulating right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale. In this work, leptonic decays of W bosons extracted from 32.9 fb−1 to 36.1 fb−1 of 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHC are used to search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) that are produced through mixing with muon or electron neutrinos. The search is conducted using the ATLAS detector in both prompt and displaced leptonic decay signatures. The prompt signature requires three leptons produced at the interaction point (either μμe or eeμ) with a veto on same-flavour opposite-charge topologies. The displaced signature comprises a prompt muon from the W boson decay and the requirement of a dilepton vertex (either μμ or μe) displaced in the transverse plane by 4–300 mm from the interaction point. The search sets constraints on the HNL mixing to muon and electron neutrinos for HNL masses in the range 4.5–50 GeV.
AB - The problems of neutrino masses, matter-antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter could be successfully addressed by postulating right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale. In this work, leptonic decays of W bosons extracted from 32.9 fb−1 to 36.1 fb−1 of 13 TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHC are used to search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) that are produced through mixing with muon or electron neutrinos. The search is conducted using the ATLAS detector in both prompt and displaced leptonic decay signatures. The prompt signature requires three leptons produced at the interaction point (either μμe or eeμ) with a veto on same-flavour opposite-charge topologies. The displaced signature comprises a prompt muon from the W boson decay and the requirement of a dilepton vertex (either μμ or μe) displaced in the transverse plane by 4–300 mm from the interaction point. The search sets constraints on the HNL mixing to muon and electron neutrinos for HNL masses in the range 4.5–50 GeV.
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
KW - LIMITS
KW - PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS
KW - MASS
KW - DARK-MATTER
KW - VMSM
KW - PAIR PRODUCTION
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85075348279&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)265
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)265
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075348279
VL - 2019
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 10
M1 - 265
ER -
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