Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in proton-proton collision events with a lepton-jet pair associated with a secondary vertex at √s = 13 TeV
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Hayrapetyan, A.
Tumasyan, A.
Adam, W.
Andrejkovic, J. W.
Bergauer, T.
Chatterjee, S.
Damanakis, K.
Dragicevic, M.
Hussain, P. S.
Jeitler, M.
Date Issued
February 6, 2025
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The CMS collaboration., Hayrapetyan, A., Tumasyan, A. et al. Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons in
proton-proton collision events with a lepton-jet pair associated with a secondary vertex at √s = 13 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2025, 36 (2025).
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Abstract
A search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1 collected at s = 13 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC is presented. Events are selected with a charged lepton originating from the primary vertex associated with the proton-proton interaction, as well as a second charged lepton and a hadronic jet associated with a secondary vertex that corresponds to the semileptonic decay of a long-lived HNL. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are evaluated for HNLs that mix with electron and/or muon neutrinos. Limits are presented in the mass range of 1–16.5 GeV, with excluded square mixing parameter values reaching as low as 2 × 10−7. For masses above 11 GeV, the presented limits exceed all previous results in the semileptonic decay channel, and for some of the considered scenarios are the strongest to date.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2025)036
