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Search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events from pp collisions at √s=13 TeV
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Search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events from pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

G. Aad, B. Abbott, K. Abeling, N.J. Abicht, S.H. Abidi, A. Aboulhorma, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, A.C. Abusleme Hoffman, …
European Physical Journal C, 卷.83(9), 824
09/2023

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Engineering (miscellaneous) Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
A search for Majorana neutrinos in same-sign WW scattering events is presented. The analysis uses s=13 TeV proton–proton collision data with an integrated luminosity of 140 fb - 1 recorded during 2015–2018 by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis targets final states including exactly two same-sign muons and at least two hadronic jets well separated in rapidity. The modelling of the main backgrounds, from Standard Model same-sign WW scattering and WZ production, is constrained with data in dedicated signal-depleted control regions. The distribution of the transverse momentum of the second-hardest muon is used to search for signals originating from a heavy Majorana neutrino with a mass between 50 GeV and 20 TeV. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation. The results are interpreted in a benchmark scenario of the Phenomenological Type-I Seesaw model. In addition, the sensitivity to the Weinberg operator is investigated. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are placed on the squared muon-neutrino–heavy-neutrino mass-mixing matrix element | V μ N | 2 as a function of the heavy Majorana neutrino’s mass m N , and on the effective μμ Majorana neutrino mass | m μ μ | .

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