Searching for the minimal Seesaw models at the LHC and beyond

TL;DR

This paper investigates minimal Seesaw models with TeV-scale right-handed neutrinos, analyzing their collider signatures at the LHC and future colliders, and updating bounds on their mixing parameters based on current and projected data.

Contribution

It provides an analysis of collider signatures for minimal Seesaw models, especially inverse Seesaw, and updates bounds on neutrino mixing parameters at the LHC and future colliders.

Findings

Right-handed neutrinos can be detected via LNC trilepton signatures.

Updated upper bounds on light-heavy neutrino mixing parameters at 13 TeV LHC.

Projected bounds for 100 TeV collider improve sensitivity to neutrino mixing.

Abstract

The existence of the tiny neutrino mass and the flavor mixing can be naturally explained by type-I Seesaw model which is probably the simplest extension of the Standard Model (SM) using Majorana type SM gauge singlet heavy Right Handed Neutrinos (RHNs). If the RHNs are around the Electroweak(EW)-scale having sizable mixings with the SM light neutrinos, they can be produced at the high energy colliders such as Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and future $100$ TeV proton-proton (pp) collider through the characteristic signatures with same sign di-lepton introducing lepton number violations(LNV). On the other hand Seesaw models, namely inverse Seesaw, with small LNV parameter can accommodate EW-scale pseudo-Dirac neutrinos with sizable mixings with SM light neutrinos while satisfying the neutrino oscillation data. Due to the smallness of the LNV parameter of such models, the `smoking-gun' signature of same-sign di-lepton is suppressed where as the RHNs in the model will manifest at the LHC and future $100$ TeV pp collider dominantly through the Lepton number conserving (LNC) trilepton final state with Missing Transverse Energy (MET). Studying various production channels of such RHNs we give an updated upper bound on the mixing parameters of the light-heavy neutrinos at the 13 TeV LHC and future 100 TeV pp collider.