Enhancing the sensitivity to seesaw mechanism predictions in gauged B−L scenarios

IF 5 2区物理与天体物理 Q1 Physics and Astronomy

Physical Review D Pub Date : 2025-03-31 DOI:10.1103/physrevd.111.055036

Francesco Capozzi, Bhaskar Dutta, Gajendra Gurung, Wooyoung Jang, Ian M. Shoemaker, Adrian Thompson, Jaehoon Yu

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Abstract

New gauge bosons coupled to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are simple and well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In searches for HNLs in proton fixed-target experiments, we find that a large population of gauge bosons (Z′) produced by proton bremsstrahlung may decay to HNLs, leading to a significant improvement in existing bounds on the (mHNL,Uα), where Uα represent the mixing between HNL and the active neutrinos with flavor α. We study this possibility in fixed target experiments with the 8 GeV proton beams, including SBND, MicroBooNE, and ICARUS, as well as DUNE and DarkQuest at 120 GeV. We find the projected sensitivities to additional Z′-mediated HNL production can bring the seesaw mechanism of the neutrino masses within a broadened experimental reach.

Published by the American Physical Society

2025

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Physical Review D 物理-天文与天体物理

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9.20

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36.00%

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审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Physical Review D (PRD) is a leading journal in elementary particle physics, field theory, gravitation, and cosmology and is one of the top-cited journals in high-energy physics. PRD covers experimental and theoretical results in all aspects of particle physics, field theory, gravitation and cosmology, including: Particle physics experiments, Electroweak interactions, Strong interactions, Lattice field theories, lattice QCD, Beyond the standard model physics, Phenomenological aspects of field theory, general methods, Gravity, cosmology, cosmic rays, Astrophysics and astroparticle physics, General relativity, Formal aspects of field theory, field theory in curved space, String theory, quantum gravity, gauge/gravity duality.