DPF - PHENO 2024

Simulating Heavy Neutral Leptons with General Couplings at Forward Collider Experiments

14 May 2024, 16:45

15m

David Lawrence Hall 106 (University of Pittsburgh)

Other BSM Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker

Alec Hewitt

Description

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are an extension of the Standard Model that are well-motivated by neutrino masses, dark matter, and baryogenesis via leptogenesis. We present a comprehensive analysis of all significant HNL production and decay mechanisms. This work has been incorporated into a new module that generates events for HNLs with arbitrary couplings to the $e$, $\mu$, and $\tau$ neutrinos within the FORESEE simulation package. We apply this new framework to simulate results for the well known benchmarks $U_e^2:U_{\mu }^2:U_{\tau }^2=$ 1:0:0, 0:1:0, 0:0:1, as well as the recently proposed benchmarks 0:1:1, and 1:1:1. The simulations are performed for FASER and proposed experiments at the Forward Physics Facility. We find projected sensitivities that extend into currently unexplored regions of parameter space with HNL masses in the 2 to 3.5 GeV range.

Presentation materials

Simulating_HNLs.pdf