Extra Higgs Boson and $Z'$ as Portals to Signatures of Heavy Neutrinos at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores how heavy neutrinos could be detected at the LHC through signatures involving extra Higgs and Z' bosons in a B-L extended Standard Model, proposing specific decay channels and selection strategies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to detect heavy neutrinos via heavy Higgs and Z' portals, with optimized selection strategies for LHC Run 2 data.

Findings

Proposes decay channels involving heavy Higgs and Z' bosons for heavy neutrino detection.

Defines selection strategies to enhance signal over background in LHC data.

Analyzes potential signatures for a wide range of heavy neutrino masses.

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the potential of observing heavy neutrino ($\nu_h$) signatures of a $U(1)_{B-L}$ enlarged Standard Model (SM) encompassing three heavy Majorana neutrinos alongside the known light neutrino states at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We exploit the theoretical decay via a pair of heavy (non-SM-like) Higgs boson and $Z'$ production followed by $\nu_h \rightarrow l^\pm W^{\mp (*)}$ and $\nu_h \rightarrow \nu_l Z^{(*)}$ decays, ultimately yielding a $3l+2j+E_{T}^{\rm{miss}}$ signature and, depending upon how boosted the final state objects are, we define different possible selections aimed at improving the signal to background ratio in LHC Run 2 data for a wide range of heavy neutrino masses.