Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. EPFL thesis
  4. Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with LHCb
 
doctoral thesis

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons with LHCb

Cholak, Serhii  
2023

This thesis presents a search for a beyond the Standard Model (SM) heavy neutral lepton (HNL), which does not interact via any of the SM interactions. This hypothetical particle has been proposed by multiple theories as an extension to the SM, and it could solve one or several experimental puzzles of the modern high energy physics. The search is done using the dataset collected by the LHCb experiment during the years 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $5.0~{\rm fb}^{-1}$. Its signature consists in a heavy neutrino decaying to $\mu^\pm\pi^\mp$ final state, while the heavy neutrino is produced in $B$ meson decays to $\mu^+N$ or $\mu^+NX$, where $X$ is not reconstructed. Results of this research work are presented as the limit on the mixing parameter $|U_{\mu}|^2$ between the HNL and the SM muon neutrino as a function of the HNL mass and lifetime that were considered. It improves the previous LHCb result by more than one order of magnitude, and is being competitive with the world-best limit.
Additionally, this manuscript describes a contribution to the development, commissioning and operation of the PLUME luminometer. This is a new subdetector of the LHCb experiment, which is dedicated to the luminosity measurement and is crucial for the operation of the detector.

  • Files
  • Details
  • Metrics
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name

EPFL_TH10320.pdf

Type

N/a

Access type

openaccess

License Condition

copyright

Size

35.6 MB

Format

Adobe PDF

Checksum (MD5)

eff2f19c20edcfd44431fae20470dd04

Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés