Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons

Ahdida, C.; Albanese, R.; Alexandrov, A.; Anokhina, A.; Aoki, S.; Arduini, G.; Atkin, E.; Azorskiy, N.; Dos Santos, F. Baaltasar; Back, J. J.; Bagulya, A.; Baranov, A.; Bardou, F.; Barker, G. J.; Battistin, M.; et. al.

Abstract

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL's benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP's sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.

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Título según WOS: Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Número: 4
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2019
DOI:

10.1007/JHEP04(2019)077

Notas: ISI