TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons
AU - Ahdida, C.
AU - Albanese, R.
AU - Alexandrov, Andrei V
AU - Anokhina, A.
AU - Aoki, S.
AU - Arduini, G.
AU - Atkin, Erica
AU - Azorskiy, N.
AU - Dos Santos, F. Baaltasar
AU - Bache, J.J.
AU - Bagulya, A.
AU - Baranov, A.
AU - Bardou, F.
AU - Barker, G. J.
AU - Battistin, M.
AU - Bay, A.
AU - Bayliss, V.
AU - Bencivenni, G.
AU - Ruchayskiy, Oleg
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - SHIP collaboration
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL’s benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP’s sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL’s benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP’s sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)077
DO - 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)077
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2019
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 077
ER -