Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in proton-proton collision events with a lepton-jet pair associated with a secondary vertex at √s=13 TeV

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Hayrapetyan, A. [1 ]
Tumasyan, A. [207 ]
Adam, W. [2 ]
Andrejkovic, J. W. [2 ]
Bergauer, T. [2 ]
Chatterjee, S. [2 ,63 ]
Damanakis, K. [2 ]
Dragicevic, M. [2 ]
Hussain, P. S. [2 ]
Jeitler, M. [2 ,208 ]
Krammer, N. [2 ]
Li, A. [2 ]
Liko, D. [2 ]
Mikulec, I. [2 ]
Schieck, J. [2 ,208 ]
Schoefbeck, R. [2 ]
Schwarz, D. [2 ]
Sonawane, M. [2 ]
Templ, S. [2 ]
Waltenberger, W. [2 ]
Wulz, C. -E. [2 ,208 ]
Janssen, T. [3 ]
Van Laer, T. [3 ]
Van Mechelen, P.
Breugelmans, N. [4 ]
D'Hondt, J. [4 ]
Dansana, S. [4 ]
De Moor, A. [4 ]
Delcourt, M. [4 ]
Heyen, F. [4 ]
Lowette, S. [4 ]
Makarenko, I. [4 ]
Muller, D. [4 ]
Tavernier, S. [4 ]
Tytgat, M. [4 ,6 ]
Van Onsem, G. P. [4 ]
Van Putte, S. [4 ]
Vannerom, D. [4 ]
Bilin, B. [5 ]
Clerbaux, B. [5 ]
Das, A. K. [5 ]
De Lentdecker, G. [5 ]
Evard, H. [5 ]
Favart, L. [5 ]
Gianneios, P. [5 ]
Jaramillo, J. [5 ]
Khalilzadeh, A. [5 ]
Khan, F. A. [5 ]
Lee, K. [5 ,109 ]
Mahdavikhorrami, M. [5 ]
机构
[1] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan, Armenia
[2] Inst Hochenergiephys, Vienna, Austria
[3] Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
[4] Vrije Univ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
[5] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
[7] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
[8] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[9] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[10] Univ Fed ABC, Univ Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[11] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[12] Univ Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
[13] Univ Tarapaca, Inst Alta Invest, Casilla 7 D, Arica, Chile
[14] Beihang Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[15] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[16] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[17] Peking Univ, State Key Lab Nucl Phys & Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China
[18] South China Normal Univ, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Nucl Sci & Guangdong Hong, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[19] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[20] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei, Peoples R China
[21] Nanjing Normal Univ, Nanjing, Peoples R China
[22] Fudan Univ, Inst Modern Phys, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[23] Fudan Univ, Key Lab Nucl Phys & Ion Beam Applicat MOE, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[24] Zhejiang Univ, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[25] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[26] Univ Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
[27] Univ Split, Fac Elect Engn Mech Engn & Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia
[28] Univ Split, Fac Sci, Split, Croatia
[29] Inst Rudjer Boskov, Zagreb, Croatia
[30] Univ Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
[31] Charles Univ Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
[32] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[33] Acad Sci Res & Technol Arab Republ Egypt, Egyptian Network High Energy Phys, Cairo, Egypt
[34] Fayoum Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys CHEP FU, Al Fayyum, Egypt
[35] NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
[36] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[37] Helsinki Inst Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[38] Lappeenranta Lahti Univ Technol, Lappeenranta, Finland
[39] Univ Paris Saclay, CEA, IRFU, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[40] Inst Polytech Paris, Ecole Polytech, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet,CNRS, Palaiseau, France
[41] Univ Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
[42] CNRS, IN2P3, Ctr Calcul, Inst Natl Phys Nucl & Phys Particules, Villeurbanne, France
[43] Inst Phys 2 Infinis Lyon IP2I, Villeurbanne, France
[44] Georgian Tech Univ, Tbilisi, Georgia
[45] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 1, Aachen, Germany
[46] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 3, Aachen, Germany
[47] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst B 3, Aachen, Germany
[48] DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[49] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[50] Karlsruher Inst Technol, Karlsruhe, Germany
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基金
欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 芬兰科学院; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
Beyond Standard Model; Hadron-Hadron Scattering; NEUTRINOS; DECAYS; MASS;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP02(2025)036
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1) collected at root s = 13TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC is presented. Events are selected with a charged lepton originating from the primary vertex associated with the proton-proton interaction, as well as a second charged lepton and a hadronic jet associated with a secondary vertex that corresponds to the semileptonic decay of a long-lived HNL. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are evaluated for HNLs that mix with electron and/or muon neutrinos. Limits are presented in the mass range of 1-16.5 GeV, with excluded square mixing parameter values reaching as low as 2 x 10(-7). For masses above 11 GeV, the presented limits exceed all previous results in the semileptonic decay channel, and for some of the considered scenarios are the strongest to date.
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