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Searching for heavy neutrinos with WWH production
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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Abstract
Extensions of the Standard Model are required to give mass to the light neutrinos and explain neutrino oscillations. One of the simplest ideas is to introduce new heavy, gauge singlet fermions that play the role of right-handed neutrinos in a seesaw mechanism. They could have large Yukawa couplings to the Higgs boson, affecting the production of the Higgs bosons in association with a pair of W bosons at future lepton colliders. Working in the inverse seesaw model and taking into account all possible experimental constraints, we find that sizable deviations, as large as 66\% are possible. This makes the $W^+_{}W^-_{}H$ production cross-section a new, promising observable to constrain neutrino mass models. The effects are generic and expected to be present in other low-scale seesaw models.
Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, minor typos corrected, Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2018), Arlington, Texas, 22-26 October 2018. C18-10-22