Same-sign dileptons as a signature for heavy Majorana neutrinos in hadron-hadron collisions

1997/03/27 by F. M. L. Almeida Jr, F. M. L. Almeida, Y. A. Coutinho +6 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(97)00143-3

published as Phys.Lett.B400:331-334,1997 · 07 pages, LaTeX; to be published in Physics Letters B

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Abstract

We discuss the possibility of same-sign dileptons as a signature for Majorana neutrinos. The production mechanism is given by a single heavy neutrino production and decay proton-proton -> l^± N X -> l^± l^± X'. Cross section and distributions are presented for the LHC energies.

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