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Discovering heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations at the Z-pole

  • Stefan Antusch,
  • Jan Hajer,
  • Bruno M. S. Oliveira

摘要

Collider-testable type I seesaw extensions of the Standard Model are generally protected by an approximate lepton number (LN) symmetry. Consequently, they predict pseudo-Dirac heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) composed of two nearly degenerate Majorana fields. The interference between the two mass eigenstates can induce heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations ( N N ¯ Os \( N\overline{N}\textrm{Os} \) ) leading to observable lepton number violation (LNV), even though the LN symmetry is approximately conserved. These N N ¯ Os \( N\overline{N}\textrm{Os} \) could be resolved in long-lived HNL searches at collider experiments, such as the proposed Future Circular e+e Collider (FCC-ee) or Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC). However, during their Z-pole runs, the LN carried away by the light (anti)neutrinos produced alongside the HNLs prevents LNV from being observed directly. Nevertheless, N N ¯ Os \( N\overline{N}\textrm{Os} \) materialise as oscillating signatures in final state distributions. We discuss and compare a selection of such oscillating observables, and perform a Monte Carlo simulation to assess the parameter space in which N N ¯ Os \( N\overline{N}\textrm{Os} \) could be resolved.