Resonant CP violation due to heavy neutrinos at the LHC

Simon Bray; Jae Sik Lee; Apostolos Pilaftsis

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.002

Resonant CP violation due to heavy neutrinos at the LHC

Simon Bray, Jae Sik Lee, Apostolos Pilaftsis

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The observed light neutrinos may be related to the existence of new heavy neutrinos in the spectrum of the SM. If a pair of heavy neutrinos has nearly degenerate masses, then CP violation from the interference between tree-level and self-energy graphs can be resonantly enhanced. We explore the possibility of observing CP asymmetries due to this mechanism at the LHC. We consider a pair of heavy neutrinos N1, 2 with masses ranging from 100 - 500 GeV and a mass-splitting Δ mN = mN2 - mN1 comparable to their widths ΓN1, 2. We find that for Δ mN ∼ ΓN1, 2, the resulting CP asymmetries can be very large or even maximal and therefore, could potentially be observed at the LHC. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-118
Number of pages	23
Journal	NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume	786
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.07.002
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2007

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Resonant CP violation, lepton flavour violation, lepton number violation, heavy neutrinos

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Resonant CP violation due to heavy neutrinos at the LHC

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