Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
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Apyan, Aram
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Di Matteo, Leonardo
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Gulhan, Doga Can
Klute, Markus
Lai, Yue Shi
Date Issued
November 2014
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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Springer-Verlag
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Khachatryan, V., A. M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “Search for Heavy Neutrinos and W Bosons with Right-Handed Couplings in Proton–proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Eur. Phys. J. C 74, no. 11 (November 2014).
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Abstract
A search for heavy, right-handed neutrinos, Nℓ ( ℓ=e,μ ), and right-handed W[subscript R] bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model, has been performed by the CMS experiment. The search was based on a sample of two lepton plus two jet events collected in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1]. For models with strict left-right symmetry, and assuming only one N[subscript ℓ] flavor contributes significantly to the W[subscript R] decay width, the region in the two-dimensional (M[subscript WR],M[subscript Nℓ]) mass plane excluded at a 95 % confidence level extends to approximately M[subscript WR]=3.0TeV and covers a large range of neutrino masses below the W[subscript R] boson mass, depending on the value of M[subscript WR]. This search significantly extends the (M[subscript WR],M[subscript Nℓ]) exclusion region beyond previous results.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3149-z
