Sensitivity prospects for lepton-trijet signals in the $\nu$SMEFT at the LHeC

Abstract

The observation of neutrino oscillations and masses motivates the extension of the standard model with right handed neutrinos, leading to heavy neutrino states possibly in the electroweak scale, which could be impacted by new high-scale weakly coupled physics. A systematic tool for studying these interactions is the neutrino-extended standard model effective field theory $\nu$SMEFT. In this work we study the prospects of the future LHeC electron-proton collider to discover or constrain the $\nu$SMEFT interactions, performing the first dedicated and realistic analysis of the well known lepton-trijet signals, both for the lepton flavor violating $p{e}^{-}\to {\mu }^{-}+3\mathrm{j}$ (LFV) and the lepton number violating $p{e}^{-}\to {\mu }^{+}+3\mathrm{j}$ (LNV) channels, for HNLs masses in the electroweak scale range: $100\mathrm{GeV}\le {\mathrm{m}}_{\mathrm{N}}\le 500\mathrm{GeV}$. The obtained sensitivity prospects show that the LHeC with $100\mathrm{f}{\mathrm{b}}^{-1}$ luminosity could be able to probe the scenario of a heavy $N$ and constrain the effective couplings to a region of the parameter space as tight as the bounds that are currently considered for the $\mathcal{O}(10)$GeV scale masses, with effective couplings of $\mathcal{O}(10^{-1})$ for NP scale $\Lambda =1\mathrm{TeV}$.

Final version accepted for publication in EPJC. 8 figures, 3 tables. Equations A4 and A5 corrected

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