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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.; Krammer, N.; Li, A.; Liko, D.; Mikulec, I.; Schieck, J.; Schöfbeck, R.; Schwarz, D.; Sonawane, M.; Templ, S.; Waltenberger, W.; Wulz, C.-E.; Darwish, M. R.; Janssen, T.; Van Mechelen, P.; [...]

Search for long-lived heavy neutrinos in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Search for long-lived heavy neutrinos in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV
  • Contributor: Hayrapetyan, A.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.; Andrejkovic, J. W.; Bergauer, T.; Chatterjee, S.; Damanakis, K.; Dragicevic, M.; Hussain, P. S.; Jeitler, M.; Krammer, N.; Li, A.; Liko, D.; Mikulec, I.; Schieck, J.; Schöfbeck, R.; Schwarz, D.; Sonawane, M.; Templ, S.; Waltenberger, W.; Wulz, C.-E.; Darwish, M. R.; Janssen, T.; Van Mechelen, P.; [...]
  • Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2024
  • Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 (2024) 6
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep06(2024)183
  • ISSN: 1029-8479
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  • Description: Abstract A search for long-lived heavy neutrinos (N) in the decays of B mesons produced in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 41.6 fb−1 collected in 2018 by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, using a dedicated data stream that enhances the number of recorded events containing B mesons. The search probes heavy neutrinos with masses in the range 1 < mN < 3 GeV and decay lengths in the range 10−2 < cτN < 104 mm, where τN is the N proper mean lifetime. Signal events are defined by the signature B → ℓBNX; N → ℓ±π∓, where the leptons ℓB and ℓ can be either a muon or an electron, provided that at least one of them is a muon. The hadronic recoil system, X, is treated inclusively and is not reconstructed. No significant excess of events over the standard model background is observed in any of the ℓ±π∓ invariant mass distributions. Limits at 95% confidence level on the sum of the squares of the mixing amplitudes between heavy and light neutrinos, |VN|2, and on cτN are obtained in different mixing scenarios for both Majorana and Dirac-like N particles. The most stringent upper limit |VN|2 < 2.0 × 10−5 is obtained at mN = 1.95 GeV for the Majorana case where N mixes exclusively with muon neutrinos. The limits on |VN|2 for masses 1 < mN < 1.7 GeV are the most stringent from a collider experiment to date.
  • Access State: Open Access