6–8 May 2013
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Inverse Seesaw Neutrino Signatures at LHC and ILC

6 May 2013, 16:45
15m
Benedum Hall G28 (University of Pittsburgh)

Benedum Hall G28

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Speaker

Mr Arindam Das (University of Alabama)

Description

We study the collider signature of pseudo-Dirac heavy neutrinos in the inverse seesaw scenario, where the heavy neutrinos with mass at the electroweak scale can have sizable mixings with the Standard Model neutrinos, while providing the tiny light neutrino masses by the inverse seesaw mechanism. Based on a simple, concrete model realizing the inverse seesaw, we fix the model parameters so as to reproduce the neutrino oscillation data and to satisfy other experimental constraints, assuming two typical flavour structures of the model and the different types of hierarchical light neutrino mass spectra. With the fixed parameters in this way, we analyze the heavy neutrino signal at the LHC through tri-lepton final state with large missing energy and at the ILC through a single lepton plus di-jet with large missing energy. We find that in some cases, the heavy neutrino signal can be observed with a large statistical significance via different flavour charged lepton final states. Therefore, we can not only discover the heavy neutrinos in the future but also obtain a clue to reveal the origin of the small neutrino mass and flavour mixing.

Author

Mr Arindam Das (University of Alabama)

Co-author

Dr Nobuchika Okada (University of Alabama)

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