Heavy Neutrinos with Dynamic Jet Vetoes: Multilepton Searches at $\sqrt{s}=14,27,$ and $100$ TeV

Abstract

Heavy neutrinos $(N)$ remain one of most promising explanations for the origin of neutrinos' tiny masses and large mixing angles. In light of broad advances in understanding and modeling of hadron collisions at large momentum transfer, we revisit the long-standard search strategy for heavy $N$ decaying to multiple charged leptons $(\ell )$, $pp\to N\ell X\to 3\ell \nu X$. For electroweak and TeV-scale $N$, we propose a qualitatively new collider analysis premised on a dynamic jet veto and discriminating, on an event-by-event basis, according to the relative amount of hadronic and leptonic activity. We report that the sensitivity to $N$ at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be improved by roughly an order of magnitude over the collider's lifetime. At $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV with $\mathcal{L}=3{\mathrm{ab}}^{-1}$, active-sterile mixing as small as $|V_{\ell N}{|}^2=10^{-2}(10^{-3})[5\times 10^{-4}]$ can be probed at $95\%$ CL for Dirac neutrinos masses $m_N\lesssim 1200(300)[200]$ GeV, well beyond present constraints for such heavy states. The improvement holds also for Majorana $N$, and is largely independent of whether charged lepton flavor is conserved or violated. The analysis, built almost entirely from inclusive, transverse observables, is designed to be robust across increasing collider energies, and hence serves as a basis for searches at future colliders: With $\mathcal{L}=15{\mathrm{ab}}^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=27$ TeV, one can probe mixing below $|V_{\ell N}{|}^2=10^{-2}(10^{-3})[2\times 10^{-4}]$ for $m_N\lesssim 3500(700)[200]$ GeV. At a hypothetical 100 TeV $pp$ collider with $\mathcal{L}=30{\mathrm{ab}}^{-1}$, one can probe below $|V_{\ell N}{|}^2=9\times 10^{-5}(10^{-3})[10^{-2}]$ for $m_N\lesssim 200$ GeV ($4$ TeV) [$15$ TeV]. We anticipate these results can be further improved with detector-specific tuning and application of machines learning techniques.

Journal version, results unchanged: 101 pages, 26 figures (116 eps files), 8 tables. Dirac neutrino FeynRules model libraries available from https://feynrules.irmp.ucl.ac.be/wiki/HeavyN

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