Bounding the Dimension-5 Seesaw Portal with non-pointing photon searches

Autor: L. Duarte, J. Jones-Pérez, C. Manrique-Chavil
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2024, Iss 4, Pp 1-21 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2024)133
Popis: Abstract The addition of d = 5 operators to the Seesaw model leads to the Dimension-5 Seesaw Portal. Here, two new operators provide interactions for the heavy sterile neutrinos. In particular, the Higgs boson can have a large branching ratio into two heavy neutrinos, meaning that these states can be searched for at the LHC. Moreover, the heavy neutrinos can now decay dominantly into light neutrinos and photons. If the heavy neutrinos are long-lived, then searches for delayed, non-pointing photons can constrain the model. In this work, we carry out a detailed recast of an ATLAS search for such displaced photons, triggered by a charged lepton produced in association to the Higgs, placing bounds on the branching ratio for Higgs decay into two heavy neutrinos as low as 2%.
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