Majorana Higgses at colliders

Abstract

Collider signals of heavy Majorana neutrino mass origin are studied in the minimal Left-Right symmetric model, where their mass is generated spontaneously together with the breaking of lepton number. The right-handed triplet Higgs boson $\Delta$, responsible for such breaking, can be copiously produced at the LHC through the Higgs portal in the gluon fusion and less so in gauge mediated channels. At $\Delta$ masses below the opening of the $VV$ decay channel, the two observable modes are pair-production of heavy neutrinos via the triplet gluon fusion $gg\to \Delta \to NN$ and pair production of triplets from the Higgs $h\to \Delta \Delta \to 4N$ decay. The latter features tri- and quad same-sign lepton final states that break lepton number by four units and have no significant background. In both cases up to four displaced vertices may be present and their displacement may serve as a discriminating variable. The backgrounds at the LHC, including the jet fake rate, are estimated and the resulting sensitivity to the Left-Right breaking scale extends well beyond 10 TeV. In addition, sub-dominant radiative modes are surveyed: the $\gamma \gamma$, $Z\gamma$ and lepton flavour violating ones. Finally, prospects for $\Delta$ signals at future $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ colliders are presented.

30 pages, 12 figures. v2: added clarifications and discussion on event selection, displacement, backgrounds; updated figures and added references, version as accepted in JHEP

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