Signatures of Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons from Neutrinophilic Charged Higgs Pair Production at the LHC

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Autori principali: Okada, Nobuchika, Sanyal, Prasenjit, Verma, Ravindra Kumar
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author Okada, Nobuchika
Sanyal, Prasenjit
Verma, Ravindra Kumar
author_facet Okada, Nobuchika
Sanyal, Prasenjit
Verma, Ravindra Kumar
contents In the neutrinophilic Higgs doublet framework, the neutrino Dirac Yukawa couplings can be sizable because of the small vacuum expection value of the extra Higgs doublet, even for a low seesaw scale. Due to this structure, the neutrinophilic charged Higgs bosons, once created, decay dominantly into heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) and charged leptons. This is a new mechanism to produce a gauge singlet HNL without suppressed cross sections. In the standard seesaw, one HNL can be long-lived, when the lightest neutrino is sufficiently light. We investigate displaced vertex signatures of the long-lived HNLs produced from the decays of the charged Higgs pair at the high luminosity LHC. We consider one displaced vertex as well as two displaced vertices signatures and perform a dedicated simulation to identify the displaced leptons. We find that high statistical significance can be achieved for the observation of one displaced vertex for charged Higgs pair production cross section $>\mathcal{O}(1)$ fb. On the other hand, the observation of two displaced vertices is challenging even for charged Higgs pair production cross section of $\mathcal{O}(10)$ fb.
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spellingShingle Signatures of Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons from Neutrinophilic Charged Higgs Pair Production at the LHC
Okada, Nobuchika
Sanyal, Prasenjit
Verma, Ravindra Kumar
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
In the neutrinophilic Higgs doublet framework, the neutrino Dirac Yukawa couplings can be sizable because of the small vacuum expection value of the extra Higgs doublet, even for a low seesaw scale. Due to this structure, the neutrinophilic charged Higgs bosons, once created, decay dominantly into heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) and charged leptons. This is a new mechanism to produce a gauge singlet HNL without suppressed cross sections. In the standard seesaw, one HNL can be long-lived, when the lightest neutrino is sufficiently light. We investigate displaced vertex signatures of the long-lived HNLs produced from the decays of the charged Higgs pair at the high luminosity LHC. We consider one displaced vertex as well as two displaced vertices signatures and perform a dedicated simulation to identify the displaced leptons. We find that high statistical significance can be achieved for the observation of one displaced vertex for charged Higgs pair production cross section $>\mathcal{O}(1)$ fb. On the other hand, the observation of two displaced vertices is challenging even for charged Higgs pair production cross section of $\mathcal{O}(10)$ fb.
title Signatures of Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons from Neutrinophilic Charged Higgs Pair Production at the LHC
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00866