Quasi-Dirac neutrinos in the linear seesaw model

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 $M_N\lesssim M_W$. Here we show that for relatively low neutrino masses, covering the few GeV range, the same-sign to opposite-sign dilepton ratio, $R_{\ell \ell }$, can be anywhere between 0 and 1, thus signaling a Quasi-Dirac regime. Particular values of $R_{\ell \ell }$ are controlled by the width of the QD neutrino and its mass splitting, the latter being equal to the light-neutrino mass $m_{\nu }$ in the LSM scenario. The current upper bound on $m_{{\nu }_1}$ together with the projected sensitivities of current and future $|U_{N\ell }{|}^2$ 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.

arXiv commentThis submission matches the published version. 23 pages, 4 figures

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