Publication
Title
Search for heavy neutrinos and W bosons with right-handed couplings in proton-proton collisions 8TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
A search for heavy, right-handed neutrinos, N-l (l = e, mu), and right-handed W-R bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model, has been performed by the CMS experiment. The search was based on a sample of two lepton plus two jet events collected in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb(-1). For models with strict left-right symmetry, and assuming only one N-l flavor contributes significantly to the WR decay width, the region in the two-dimensional (M-WR, M-Nl) mass plane excluded at a 95% confidence level extends to approximately M-WR = 3.0 TeV and covers a large range of neutrino masses below the W-R boson mass, depending on the value of M-WR. This search significantly extends the (M-WR, M-Nl) exclusion region beyond previous results.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European physical journal : C : particles and fields. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 2014
ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI
10.1140/EPJC/S10052-014-3149-Z
Volume/pages
74 :11 (2014) , 23 p.
Article Reference
3149
ISI
000347174700001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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