Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton
A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is presented, which considers the hadronic final state and coupling scenarios involving all three lepton generations in the 2–20 GeV HNL mass range for the first time. Events comprising two leptons (electrons or muons) and jets are analyzed in a d...
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| author | Hayrapetyan, A. Tumasyan, A. Adam, W. Andrejkovic, J. W. Bergauer, T. Chatterjee, S. Damanakis, K. Dragicevic, M. Hussain, P. S. Jeitler, M. Krammer, N. Li, A. Liko, D. Mikulec, I. Schieck, J. Schöfbeck, R. Schwarz, D. |
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| description | A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is presented, which considers the hadronic final state and coupling scenarios involving all three lepton generations in the 2–20 GeV HNL mass range for the first time. Events comprising two leptons (electrons or muons) and jets are analyzed in a data sample of proton-proton collisions, recorded with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. A novel jet tagger, based on a deep neural network, has been developed to identify jets from an HNL decay using various features of the jet and its constituent particles. The network output can be used as a powerful discriminating tool to probe a broad range of HNL lifetimes and masses. Contributions from background processes are determined from data. No excess of events in data over the expected background is observed. Upper limits on the HNL production cross section are derived as functions of the HNL mass and the three coupling strengths VℓN to each lepton generation ℓ and presented as exclusion limits in the coupling-mass plane, as lower limits on the HNL lifetime, and on the HNL mass. In this search, the most stringent limit on the coupling strength is obtained for pure muon coupling scenarios; values of |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1540412025-02-04T01:55:54Z Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton Hayrapetyan, A. Tumasyan, A. Adam, W. Andrejkovic, J. W. Bergauer, T. Chatterjee, S. Damanakis, K. Dragicevic, M. Hussain, P. S. Jeitler, M. Krammer, N. Li, A. Liko, D. Mikulec, I. Schieck, J. Schöfbeck, R. Schwarz, D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is presented, which considers the hadronic final state and coupling scenarios involving all three lepton generations in the 2–20 GeV HNL mass range for the first time. Events comprising two leptons (electrons or muons) and jets are analyzed in a data sample of proton-proton collisions, recorded with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. A novel jet tagger, based on a deep neural network, has been developed to identify jets from an HNL decay using various features of the jet and its constituent particles. The network output can be used as a powerful discriminating tool to probe a broad range of HNL lifetimes and masses. Contributions from background processes are determined from data. No excess of events in data over the expected background is observed. Upper limits on the HNL production cross section are derived as functions of the HNL mass and the three coupling strengths VℓN to each lepton generation ℓ and presented as exclusion limits in the coupling-mass plane, as lower limits on the HNL lifetime, and on the HNL mass. In this search, the most stringent limit on the coupling strength is obtained for pure muon coupling scenarios; values of | V μ N 2 $$ {V}_{\mu \textrm{N}}^2 $$ | > 5 (4) × 10−7 are excluded for Dirac (Majorana) HNLs with a mass of 10 GeV at a confidence level of 95% that correspond to proper decay lengths of 17 (10) mm. 2024-04-02T17:00:39Z 2024-04-02T17:00:39Z 2024-03-19 2024-03-31T03:17:34Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154041 Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024 Mar 19;2024(3):105 PUBLISHER_CC en 10.1007/jhep03(2024)105 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| spellingShingle | Nuclear and High Energy Physics Hayrapetyan, A. Tumasyan, A. Adam, W. Andrejkovic, J. W. Bergauer, T. Chatterjee, S. Damanakis, K. Dragicevic, M. Hussain, P. S. Jeitler, M. Krammer, N. Li, A. Liko, D. Mikulec, I. Schieck, J. Schöfbeck, R. Schwarz, D. Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title | Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title_full | Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title_fullStr | Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title_short | Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| title_sort | search for long lived heavy neutral leptons with lepton flavour conserving or violating decays to a jet and a charged lepton |
| topic | Nuclear and High Energy Physics |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/154041 |
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