Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2005-03-02
JHEP 0505:026,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
LaTeX 32 pages. Added comments and references. Matches version to appear in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/026
We discuss single heavy neutrino production e+ e- -> N nu -> l W nu, l = e, mu, tau, at a future high energy collider like CLIC, with a centre of mass energy of 3 TeV. This process could allow to detect heavy neutrinos with masses of 1-2 TeV if their coupling to the electron V_eN is in the range 0.004-0.01. We study the dependence of the limits on the heavy neutrino mass and emphasise the crucial role of lepton flavour in the discovery of a positive signal at CLIC energy. We present strategies to determine heavy neutrino properties once they are discovered, namely their Dirac or Majorana character and the size and chirality of their charged current couplings. Conversely, if no signal is found, the bound V_eN < 0.002-0.006 would be set for masses of 1-2 TeV, improving the present limit up to a factor of 30. We also extend previous work examining in detail the flavour and mass dependence of the corresponding limits at ILC, as well as the determination of heavy neutrino properties if they are discovered at this collider.
Aguila Del F.
Aguilar-Saavedra Juan Antonio
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