Search for heavy lepton partners of neutrinos in proton–proton collisions in the context of the type III seesaw mechanism
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Apyan, Aram
Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hahn, Kristian Allan
Kim, Y.
Date Issued
October 2012
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Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, E. Aguilo, T. Bergauer, et al. “Search for Heavy Lepton Partners of Neutrinos in Proton–proton Collisions in the Context of the Type III Seesaw Mechanism.” Physics Letters B 718, no. 2 (December 2012): 348–368. © 2012 CERN
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A search is presented in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV for fermionic triplet states expected in type III seesaw models. The search is performed using final states with three isolated charged leptons and an imbalance in transverse momentum. The data, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb[superscript −1]. No excess of events is observed above the background predicted by the standard model, and the results are interpreted in terms of limits on production cross sections and masses of the heavy partners of the neutrinos in type III seesaw models. Depending on the considered scenarios, lower limits are obtained on the mass of the heavy partner of the neutrino that range from 180 to 210 GeV. These are the first limits on the production of type III seesaw fermionic triplet states reported by an experiment at the LHC.
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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/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.10.070
