Searches for light sterile neutrinos with multitrack displaced vertices
Giovanna Cottin, Juan Carlos Helo, Martin Hirsch

TL;DR
This paper evaluates the LHC's potential to discover long-lived sterile neutrinos with masses below the electroweak scale by optimizing search strategies involving displaced vertices, and finds promising sensitivity in certain mass ranges.
Contribution
It proposes a new trigger strategy and optimized cuts to improve detection prospects for light sterile neutrinos at the LHC within a left-right symmetric model.
Findings
LHC with 13 TeV and 300 fb$^{-1}$ can probe sterile neutrino masses between 10-20 GeV.
Higher luminosity (3000 fb$^{-1}$) extends sensitivity up to 30 GeV.
Optimized search strategies significantly enhance detection prospects for low-mass sterile neutrinos.
Abstract
We study discovery prospects for long-lived sterile neutrinos at the LHC with multitrack displaced vertices, with masses below the electroweak scale. We reinterpret current displaced vertex searches making use of publicly available, parametrized selection efficiencies for modeling the detector response to displaced vertices. We focus on production of right-handed bosons and neutrinos in a left-right symmetric model, and find poor sensitivity. After proposing a different trigger strategy (considering the prompt lepton accompanying the neutrino displaced vertex) and optimized cuts in the invariant mass and track multiplicity of the vertex, we find that the LHC with TeV and 300 fb is able to probe sterile neutrino masses between GeV (for a right-handed gauge boson mass of TeV).…
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