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Type: Journal article
Title: Search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events from pp collisions at √ s = 13 TeV
Other Titles: Search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events from pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV
Author: Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abeling, K.
Abicht, N.J.
Abidi, S.H.
Aboulhorma, A.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
Abulaiti, Y.
Abusleme Hoffman, A.C.
Acharya, B.S.
Adam Bourdarios, C.
Adamczyk, L.
Adamek, L.
Addepalli, S.V.
Addison, M.J.
Adelman, J.
Adiguzel, A.
Adye, T.
Affolder, A.A.
et al.
Citation: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2023; 83(9):824-1-824-26
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Issue Date: 2023
ISSN: 1434-6044
1434-6052
Abstract: A search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events is presented. The analysis uses √ s = 13 TeV proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 recorded during 2015–2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis targets final states including exactly two same-sign muons and at least two hadronic jets well separated in rapidity. The modelling of the main backgrounds, from Standard Model same-sign WW scattering and WZ production, is constrained with data in dedicated signal-depleted control regions. The distribution of the transverse momentum of the second-hardest muon is used to search for signals originating from a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass between 50 GeV and 20 TeV. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation. The results are interpreted in a benchmark scenario of the Phenomenological Type-I Seesaw model. In addition, the sensitivity to the Weinberg operator is investigated. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are placed on the squared muon-neutrino–heavy-neutrino mass-mixing matrix element |VμN |2 as a function of the heavy Majorana neutrino’s mass mN , and on the effective μμ Majorana neutrino mass |mμμ|.
Keywords: Majorana neutrinos; muons
Rights: © CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11915-y
Grant ID: ARC
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11915-y
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