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Search for heavy Majorana neutrinos in same-sign dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}=13 $ TeV

Sirunyan, Albert M
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Tumasyan, Armen
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Adam, Wolfgang
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January 15, 2019
Journal of High Energy Physics

A search is performed for a heavy Majorana neutrino (N), produced in leptonic decay of a W boson propagator and decaying into a W boson and a lepton, with the CMS detector at the LHC. The signature used in this search consists of two same-sign leptons, in any flavor combination of electrons and muons, and at least one jet. The data were collected during 2016 in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{−1}$. The results are found to be consistent with the expected standard model background. Upper limits are set in the mass range between 20 and 1600 GeV in the context of a Type-I seesaw mechanism, on |V${eN}$|$^{2}$, |V${μN}$|$^{2}$, and |V${eN}$V${μN}^{*}$ |$^{2}$/(|V${eN}$|$^{2}$ + |V${μN}$|$^{2}$), where V${ℓN}$ is the matrix element describing the mixing of N with the standard model neutrino of flavor ℓ = e, μ. For N masses between 20 and 1600 GeV, the upper limits on |V${ℓN}$|$^{2}$ range between 2.3 × 10$^{−5}$ and unity. These are the most restrictive direct limits for heavy Majorana neutrino masses above 430 GeV.

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