Search for a heavy composite Majorana neutrino in events with dilepton signatures from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV

dc.citation.articleNumber137803
dc.citation.journalTitlePhysics Letters B
dc.citation.volumeNumber843
dc.contributor.authorCMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-08T18:56:08Z
dc.date.available2024-05-08T18:56:08Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractResults are presented of a search for a heavy Majorana neutrino Image 1 decaying into two same-flavor leptons ℓ (electrons or muons) and a quark-pair jet. A model is considered in which the Image 1 is an excited neutrino in a compositeness scenario. The analysis is performed using a sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138fb−1. The data are found to be in agreement with the standard model prediction. For the process in which the Image 1 is produced in association with a lepton, followed by the decay of the Image 1 to a same-flavor lepton and a quark pair, an upper limit at 95% confidence level on the product of the cross section and branching fraction is obtained as a function of the Image 1 mass Image 2 and the compositeness scale Λ. For this model the data exclude the existence of Image 3 (Image 4) for Image 2 below 6.0 (6.1) TeV, at the limit where Image 2 is equal to Λ. For Image 5, values of Λ less than 20 (23) TeV are excluded. These results represent a considerable improvement in sensitivity, covering a larger parameter space than previous searches in Image 6 collisions at 13 TeV.
dc.identifier.citationCMS Collaboration. (2023). Search for a heavy composite Majorana neutrino in events with dilepton signatures from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV<math><msqrt is="true"><mrow is="true"><mi is="true">s</mi></mrow></msqrt><mo linebreak="goodbreak" linebreakstyle="after" is="true">=</mo><mn is="true">13</mn><mtext is="true"> TeV</mtext></math>. Physics Letters B, 843, 137803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137803
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137803
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115646
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
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dc.titleSearch for a heavy composite Majorana neutrino in events with dilepton signatures from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV
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