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Search for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos in the decay of top quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at (Formula Presented) with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G. ; Åkesson, T.P.A. LU orcid ; Astrand, K.S.V. LU ; Doglioni, C. LU ; Ekman, P.A. LU orcid ; Hedberg, V. LU ; Herde, H. LU orcid ; Konya, B. LU ; Lytken, E. LU orcid and Poettgen, R. LU orcid , et al. (2024) In Physical Review D 110(11).
Abstract
A search for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos is performed with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, using the (Formula Presented) of proton-proton collision data at (Formula Presented) collected during Run 2. This search targets (Formula Presented) production, in which both top quarks decay into a bottom quark and a (Formula Presented) boson, where one of the (Formula Presented) bosons decays hadronically and the other decays into an electron or muon and a heavy neutral lepton. The heavy neutral lepton is identified through a decay into an electron or muon and another (Formula Presented) boson, resulting in a pair of same-charge same-flavor leptons in the final state. This paper presents the first search for heavy... (More)
A search for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos is performed with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, using the (Formula Presented) of proton-proton collision data at (Formula Presented) collected during Run 2. This search targets (Formula Presented) production, in which both top quarks decay into a bottom quark and a (Formula Presented) boson, where one of the (Formula Presented) bosons decays hadronically and the other decays into an electron or muon and a heavy neutral lepton. The heavy neutral lepton is identified through a decay into an electron or muon and another (Formula Presented) boson, resulting in a pair of same-charge same-flavor leptons in the final state. This paper presents the first search for heavy neutral leptons in the mass range of 15-75 GeV using (Formula Presented) events. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation, and upper limits are placed on the signal cross sections. Assuming a benchmark scenario of the phenomenological type-I seesaw model, these cross section limits are then translated into upper limits on the mixing parameters of the heavy Majorana neutrino with Standard Model neutrinos. (Less)
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10.1103/PhysRevD.110.112004
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  abstract     = {{A search for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos is performed with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, using the (Formula Presented) of proton-proton collision data at (Formula Presented) collected during Run 2. This search targets (Formula Presented) production, in which both top quarks decay into a bottom quark and a (Formula Presented) boson, where one of the (Formula Presented) bosons decays hadronically and the other decays into an electron or muon and a heavy neutral lepton. The heavy neutral lepton is identified through a decay into an electron or muon and another (Formula Presented) boson, resulting in a pair of same-charge same-flavor leptons in the final state. This paper presents the first search for heavy neutral leptons in the mass range of 15-75 GeV using (Formula Presented) events. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation, and upper limits are placed on the signal cross sections. Assuming a benchmark scenario of the phenomenological type-I seesaw model, these cross section limits are then translated into upper limits on the mixing parameters of the heavy Majorana neutrino with Standard Model neutrinos.}},
  author       = {{Aad, G. and Åkesson, T.P.A. and Astrand, K.S.V. and Doglioni, C. and Ekman, P.A. and Hedberg, V. and Herde, H. and Konya, B. and Lytken, E. and Poettgen, R. and Simpson, N.D. and Smirnova, O. and Wallin, E.J. and Zwalinski, L.}},
  issn         = {{2470-0010}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{11}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review D}},
  title        = {{Search for heavy right-handed Majorana neutrinos in the decay of top quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at (Formula Presented) with the ATLAS detector}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.112004}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevD.110.112004}},
  volume       = {{110}},
  year         = {{2024}},
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