Heavy neutral leptons and top quarks in effective field theory

We study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC in effective field theory, concentrating on d = 6 operators with top quarks. Depending on the operator choice and HNL mass, the HNLs will be produced either from proton-proton collisions in association with a single top, or via no...

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Autores: Beltrán, Rebeca, Cottin, G., Günther, Julian, Hirsch, Martin, Titov, A., Wang, Z. S.
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/398553
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/398553
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105007111190
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:SMEFT
Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos
Top Quark
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Resumo:We study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC in effective field theory, concentrating on d = 6 operators with top quarks. Depending on the operator choice and HNL mass, the HNLs will be produced either from proton-proton collisions in association with a single top, or via non-standard decays of top quarks. For long-lived HNLs we estimate the sensitivity reach of different detectors to various operators with top quarks and the HNLs for the high-luminosity phase of the LHC. For certain operators, ATLAS and some far detectors (MATHUSLA and ANUBIS) will be able to probe the associated new-physics scale as large as 12 TeV and 4.5 TeV, respectively, covering complementary HNL-mass ranges.