Enhanced pair production of heavy Majorana neutrinos at LHC

Abstract

Towards experimental confirmations of the type-I seesaw mechanism, we explore a prospect of discovering the heavy Majorana right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) from a resonant production of a new massive gauge boson ($Z^{\prime }$) and its subsequent decay into a pair of RHNs ($Z^{\prime }\to NN$) at the future LHC. Recent simulation studies have shown that the discovery of the RHNs through this process is promising in the future. However, the current LHC data very severely constrains the production cross section of the $Z^{\prime }$ boson into a dilepton final states, $pp\to Z^{\prime }\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$ ($\ell =e$ or $\mu$). Extrapolating the current bound to the future, we find that a significant enhancement of the branching ratio $\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to NN$) over $\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-}$) is necessary for the future discovery of RHNs. As a well-motivated simple extension of the Standard Model (SM) to incorporate the $Z^{\prime }$ boson and the type-I seesaw mechanism, we consider the minimal U(1)${}_X$ model. We point out that this model can yield a significant enhancement up to $\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to NN)/\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-})\simeq 5$ (per generation). This is in sharp contrast with the minimal $B-L$ model, a benchmark scenario commonly used in simulation studies, which predicts $\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to NN)/\mathrm{BR}(Z^{\prime }\to {\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{-})\simeq 0.5$ (per generation). With such an enhancement and a realistic model-parameter choice to reproduce the neutrino oscillation data, we conclude that the possibility of discovering RHNs with a $300{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ luminosity implies that the $Z^{\prime }$ boson will be discovered with a luminosity of $170.5{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$ ($125{\mathrm{fb}}^{-1}$) for the normal (inverted) hierarchy of the light neutrino mass pattern.

10 pages, 2 figures, revised version (discussion extended, Figure 1 revised, typos corrected, new references added)

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