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Displaced vertex searches for sterile neutrinos at future lepton colliders

Antusch, Stefan and Cazzato, Eros and Fischer, Oliver. (2016) Displaced vertex searches for sterile neutrinos at future lepton colliders. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12. 007.

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Abstract

We investigate the sensitivity of future lepton colliders to displaced vertices from the decays of long-lived heavy (almost sterile) neutrinos with electroweak scale masses and detectable time of flight. As future lepton colliders we consider the FCC-ee, the CEPC, and the ILC, searching at the Z-pole and at the center-of-mass energies of 240, 350 and 500 GeV. For a realistic discussion of the detector response to the displaced vertex signal and the Standard Model background we consider the ILC’s Silicon Detector (SiD) as benchmark for the future lepton collider detectors. We find that displaced vertices constitute a powerful search channel for sterile neutrinos, sensitive to squared active-sterile mixing angles as small as 10−11.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Physik > Physik > Theoretische Physik (Antusch)
UniBasel Contributors:Antusch, Stefan and Fischer, Oliver and Cazzato, Eros
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Springer
e-ISSN:1029-8479
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Deposited On:13 Feb 2017 12:58

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