Phenomenology of the Higgs sector of a Dimension-7 Neutrino Mass Generation Mechanism

TL;DR

This paper explores a neutrino mass generation model involving a dimension-7 operator, analyzing its collider phenomenology, experimental constraints, and potential for discovery at the LHC.

Contribution

It introduces a specific dimension-7 neutrino mass model with unique scalar particles and studies its collider signatures and experimental bounds.

Findings

Triply charged scalars detectable up to 950 GeV at the LHC.

Doubly charged Higgs bounds depend on the model spectrum.

Higgs decay to photon pairs constrains the model parameters.

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit the dimension-7 neutrino mass generation mechanism based on the addition of an isospin $3/2$ scalar quadruplet and two vector-like iso-triplet leptons to the standard model. We discuss the LHC phenomenology of the charged scalars of this model, complemented by the electroweak precision and lepton flavor violation constraints. We pay particular attention to the triply charged and doubly charged components. We focus on the same-sign-tri-lepton signatures originating from the triply-charged scalars and find a discovery reach of 600 - 950 GeV at 3 ab$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity at the LHC. On the other hand, doubly charged Higgs has been an object of collider searches for a long time, and we show how the present bounds on its mass depend on the particle spectrum of the theory. Strong constraint on the model parameter space can arise from the measured decay rate of the Standard Model Higgs to a pair of photons as well.