| Title: |
Search for heavy neutral leptons in decays of W bosons produced in 13 TeV pp collisions using prompt signatures in the ATLAS detector |
| Authors: |
Aad, G; Aakvaag, E; Abbott, B; Abdelhameed, S; Abeling, K; Abicht, NJ; Abidi, SH; Aboelela, M; Aboulhorma, A; Abramowicz, H; Abulaiti, Y; Acharya, BS; Ackermann, A; Bourdarios, C Adam; Adamczyk, L; Addepalli, SV; Addison, MJ; Adelman, J; Adiguzel, A; Adye, T; Affolder, AA; Afik, Y; Agaras, MN; Aggarwal, A; Agheorghiesei, C; Ahmadov, F; Ahuja, S; Ai, X; Aielli, G; Aikot, A; Tamlihat, M Ait; Aitbenchikh, B; Akbiyik, M; Åkesson, TPA; Akimov, AV; Akiyama, D; Akolkar, NN; Aktas, S; Alberghi, GL; Albert, J; Alberti, U; Albicocco, P; Albouy, GL; Alderweireldt, S; Alegria, ZL; Aleksa, M; Aleksandrov, IN; Alexa, C; Alexopoulos, T; Alfonsi, F; Algren, M; Alhroob, M; Ali, B; Ali, HMJ; Ali, S; Alibocus, SW; Aliev, M; Alimonti, G; Alkakhi, W; Allaire, C; Allbrooke, BMM; Allen, JS; Allen, JF; Allport, PP; Aloisio, A; Alonso, F; Alpigiani, C; Alsolami, ZMK; Fernandez, A Alvarez; Cardoso, M Alves; Alviggi, MG; Aly, M; Coutinho, Y Amaral; Ambler, A; Amelung, C; Amerl, M; Ames, CG; Amezza, T; Amidei, D; Amini, B; Amirie, K; Amirkhanov, A; Dos Santos, SP Amor; Amos, KR; Amperiadou, D; An, S; Anastopoulos, C; Andeen, T; Anders, JK; Anderson, AC; Andreazza, A; Angelidakis, S; Angerami, A; Anisenkov, AV; Annovi, A; Antel, C; Antipov, E; Antonelli, M; Anulli, F; Aoki, M |
| Source: |
European Physical Journal C, vol 86, iss 2 |
| Publisher Information: |
eScholarship, University of California |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
University of California: eScholarship |
| Subject Terms: |
5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics (for-2020); 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics (for-2020); 51 Physical Sciences (for-2020); 0202 Atomic; Molecular; Nuclear; Particle and Plasma Physics (for); 0206 Quantum Physics (for); Nuclear & Particles Physics (science-metrix); 5101 Astronomical sciences (for-2020); 5102 Atomic; molecular and optical physics (for-2020) |
| Description: |
The existence of right-handed neutrinos with Majorana masses below the electroweak scale could help address the origins of neutrino masses, the matter–antimatter asymmetry, and dark matter. In this paper, leptonic decays of W bosons from 140fb-1$$^{-1}$$ of 13TeV proton–proton collisions at the LHC, reconstructed in the ATLAS experiment, are used to search for heavy neutral leptons produced through their mixing with muon or electron neutrinos in a scenario with lepton number violation. The search is conducted using prompt leptonic decay signatures. The considered final states require two same-charge leptons or three leptons, while vetoing three-lepton same-flavour topologies. No significant excess over the expected Standard Model backgrounds is found, leading to constraints on the heavy neutral lepton’s mixing with muon and electron neutrinos for heavy-neutral-lepton masses. The analysis excludes |Ue|2$$|U_{e}|^2$$ values above 8×10-5$$8\times 10^{-5}$$ and |Uμ|2$$|U_{\mu }|^2$$ values above 5.0×10-5$$5.0 \times 10^{-5}$$ in the full mass range of 8–65GeV. The strongest constraints are placed on heavy-neutral-lepton masses in the range 15–30GeV of |Ue|2 |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
qt2vz4c1gp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vz4c1gp |
| DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15191-w |
| Availability: |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vz4c1gp; https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15191-w |
| Rights: |
CC-BY-NC |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.E23DBC05 |
| Database: |
BASE |