Probing left-handed heavy neutral leptons in the Vector Scotogenic Model

• Published in: The journal of high energy physics Vol. 2024; no. 2; pp. 153 - 16
• Main Authors: Paulo Areyuna, C., Zamora-Saa, Jilberto, Zerwekh, Alfonso R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 21-02-2024; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Angular distribution; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Dark matter; Dark Matter at Colliders; Elementary Particles; Flavor (particle physics); Leptons; Neutrinos; Particle physics; Phenomenology; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Quarks; Regular Article - Theoretical Physics; Relativity Theory; Specific BSM Phenomenology; String Theory; Dark Matter at Colliders; Specific BSM Phenomenology
• ISSN: 1029-8479; 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)153

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In this work, we consider an extension to the Standard Model composed by a Massive Vector Doublet under SU(2)
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and a Left-handed Heavy Neutral Lepton. We study the production of these exotic leptons with the Same Flavor Opposite Sign standard lepton pair, and jets, considering Drell-Yan and Vector Boson Fusion as independent cases. We find that for the latter, the dilepton angular distribution is different enough from the background to use it as a smoking-gun for our model. Based on this fact, we establish limits on the parameter space considering previous experimental searches in this final state.