3–7 Dec 2012
IST Congress Center
Europe/Lisbon timezone
<big>NEWS: Deadline for Proceedings - 28 February 2013 </big>

Higgs Decays in Low Scale Type I Seesaw Scenarios

6 Dec 2012, 14:50
25m
Main Auditorium (IST Congress Center)

Main Auditorium

IST Congress Center

Instituto Superior Técnico Avenida Rovisco Pais,1 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

Speaker

Dr Emiliano Molinaro (Technische Universität München)

Description

The couplings of low scale type I seesaw scenarios are severely constrained by the requirement of reproducing the correct neutrino mass and mixing parameters, by the non-observation of lepton number and charged lepton flavour violating processes and by electroweak precision data. We show that all these constraints still allow for the possibility of an exotic Higgs decay channel into a light neutrino and a heavy neutrino with a sizable branching ratio. We also estimate the prospects to observe this decay at the LHC and discuss its complementarity to the indirect probes of the low scale type I see-saw model from experiments searching for lepton flavour violation.

Primary author

Dr Emiliano Molinaro (Technische Universität München)

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