At the HL-LHC, first-generation leptoquarks decaying to right-handed neutrinos are discovered most efficiently through indirect t-channel production, reaching leptoquark masses of roughly 3 to 10 TeV when the new coupling is large.
Testing the seesaw mechanisms via displaced right-handed neutrinos from a light scalar at the HL-LHC
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We investigate the pair production of right-handed neutrinos from the decay of a light $B-L$ scalar in the $U(1)_{B-L}$ model. The $B-L$ scalar mixes to the SM Higgs, and the physical scalar is required to be lighter than the observed Higgs. The produced right-handed neutrinos are predicted to be long-lived according to the type-I seesaw mechanism, and yield potentially distinct signatures such as displaced vertex and time-delayed leptons at the CMS/ATLAS/LHCb, as well as signatures at the far detectors including the CODEX-b, FACET, FASER, MoEDAL-MAPP and MATHUSLA. We analyze the sensitivity reach at the HL-LHC for the right-handed neutrinos with masses of 2.5 $\sim$ 30 GeV, showing that the active-sterile mixing to muons can be probed to $V_{\mu N} \sim 10^{-5}$ at the CMS/ATLAS/LHCb using the displaced vertex searches, and one magnitude lower at the MATHUSLA/CMS using time-delayed leptons searches, reaching the parameter space interesting for type-I seesaw mechanisms.
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Right-handed neutrino production through first-generation leptoquarks
At the HL-LHC, first-generation leptoquarks decaying to right-handed neutrinos are discovered most efficiently through indirect t-channel production, reaching leptoquark masses of roughly 3 to 10 TeV when the new coupling is large.