학술논문

Quasi-Dirac neutrinos in the linear seesaw model
Document Type
article
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 7, Pp 1-22 (2021)
Subject
Beyond Standard Model
Neutrino Physics
Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity
QC770-798
Language
English
ISSN
1029-8479
Abstract
Abstract We implement a minimal linear seesaw model (LSM) for addressing the Quasi-Dirac (QD) behaviour of heavy neutrinos, focusing on the mass regime of M N ≲ M W . Here we show that for relatively low neutrino masses, covering the few GeV range, the same-sign to opposite-sign dilepton ratio, R ℓℓ , can be anywhere between 0 and 1, thus signaling a Quasi-Dirac regime. Particular values of R ℓℓ are controlled by the width of the QD neutrino and its mass splitting, the latter being equal to the light-neutrino mass m ν in the LSM scenario. The current upper bound on m ν1 together with the projected sensitivities of current and future |U N ℓ |2 experimental measurements, set stringent constraints on our low-scale QD mass regime. Some experimental prospects of testing the model by LHC displaced vertex searches are also discussed.