Search for heavy sterile neutrinos in trileptons at the LHC *K. W. was Supported by the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (No.90 Document of OCPC, 2015); C. S. K. by the NRF grant funded by the Korean government of the MEST (No. 2016R1D1A1A02936965); and C. D. by Chile grants Fondecyt No. 1130617, Conicyt ACT 1406 and PIA/Basal FB0821. (October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dib, Claudio O.; Kim, C. S.; Wang, Kechen
• Is Part Of: Chinese physics C. Volume 41:Number 10(2017:Oct.)
• Publication Date: 2017-10
• Subjects: 14.60.St -- 13.35.Hb -- 11.30.Hv; sterile neutrinos -- LHC -- trileptons -- BSM physics; Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Periodicals; Nuclear physics -- Periodicals; 539.76
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/41/10/103103
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1674-1137

Abstract

Abstract: We present a search strategy for both Dirac and Majorana sterile neutrinos from the purely leptonic decays of W ± → e ± e ± μ ∓ ν and μ ± μ ± e ∓ ν at the 14 TeV LHC. The discovery and exclusion limits for sterile neutrinos are shown using both the Cut-and-Count (CC) and Multi-Variate Analysis (MVA) methods. We also discriminate between Dirac and Majorana sterile neutrinos by exploiting a set of kinematic observables which differ between the Dirac and Majorana cases. We find that the MVA method, compared to the more common CC method, can greatly enhance the discovery and discrimination limits. Two benchmark points with sterile neutrino mass m N = 20 GeV and 50 GeV are tested. For an integrated luminosity of 3000 fb −1, sterile neutrinos can be found with 5 σ significance if heavy-to-light neutrino mixings | U Ne | 2 ∼ | U Nμ | 2 ∼ 10 −6, while Majorana vs. Dirac discrimination can be reached if at least one of the mixings is of order 10 −5 .