Sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to Heavy Neutral Leptons

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作者
Ahdida, C. [8 ]
Albanese, R. [1 ,9 ]
Alexandrov, A. [9 ]
Anokhina, A. [10 ]
Aoki, S. [11 ]
Arduini, G. [8 ]
Atkin, E. [12 ]
Azorskiy, N. [13 ]
Dos Santos, F. Baaltasar [8 ]
Back, J. J. [14 ]
Bagulya, A. [15 ]
Baranov, A. [16 ]
Bardou, F. [8 ]
Barker, G. J. [14 ]
Battistin, M. [8 ]
Bauche, J. [8 ]
Bay, A. [17 ]
Bayliss, V. [18 ]
Bencivenni, G. [19 ]
Berdnikov, Y. A. [20 ]
Berdnikov, A. Y. [20 ]
Berezkina, I. [15 ]
Bertani, M. [19 ]
Betancourt, C. [21 ]
Bezshyiko, I. [21 ]
Bezshyyko, O. [22 ]
Bick, D. [23 ]
Bieschke, S. [23 ]
Blanco, A. [24 ]
Boehm, J. [18 ]
Bogomilov, M. [25 ]
Bondarenko, K. [22 ,26 ]
Bonivento, W. M. [27 ]
Borburgh, J. [8 ]
Boyarsky, A. [22 ,26 ]
Brenner, R. [28 ]
Breton, D. [29 ]
Brundler, R. [21 ]
Bruschi, M. [30 ]
Buescher, V. [32 ,33 ]
Buonaura, A. [21 ]
Buontempo, S. [9 ]
Cadeddu, S. [27 ]
Calcaterra, A. [19 ]
Calviani, M. [8 ]
Campanelli, M. [31 ]
Casolino, M. [8 ]
Charitonidis, N. [8 ]
Chau, P. [32 ,33 ]
Chauveau, J. [34 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bari, Bari, Italy
[2] Univ Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
[3] Univ Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[4] Univ Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[5] Univ Basilicata, Potenza, Italy
[6] Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Moscow, Moscow Region, Russia
[7] Consorzio CREATE, Naples, Italy
[8] European Org Nucl Res CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[9] Sez INFN Napoli, Naples, Italy
[10] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Skobeltsyn Inst Nucl Phys, Moscow, Russia
[11] Kobe Univ, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
[12] Natl Res Nucl Univ MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
[13] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[14] Univ Warwick, Warwick, England
[15] PN Lebedev Phys Inst LPI, Moscow, Russia
[16] Yandex Sch Data Anal, Moscow, Russia
[17] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
[18] STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot, Oxon, England
[19] INFN Frascati, Lab Nazl, Frascati, Italy
[20] St Petersburg Polytech Univ SPbPU, St Petersburg, Russia
[21] Univ Zurich, Inst Phys, Zurich, Switzerland
[22] Taras Shevchenko Natl Univ Kyiv, Kiev, Ukraine
[23] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[24] Lab Instrumentat & Expt Particle Phys, LIP, Lisbon, Portugal
[25] Sofia Univ, Fac Phys, Sofia, Bulgaria
[26] Leiden Univ, Leiden, Netherlands
[27] Sez INFN Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
[28] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[29] Univ Paris Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, LAL, CNRS,IN2P3, Orsay, France
[30] Sez INFN Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[31] UCL, London, England
[32] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, Mainz, Germany
[33] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, PRISMA Cluster Excellence, Mainz, Germany
[34] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Univ, LPNHE, IN2P3,CNRS, F-75252 Paris, France
[35] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, Chile
[36] Ctr Cient Tecnol Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
[37] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, Bonn, Germany
[38] Natl Univ Sci & Technol MISiS, Moscow, Russia
[39] Sez INFN Bari, Bari, Italy
[40] INFN Gran Sasso, Lab Nazl, Laquila, Italy
[41] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys ITEP NRC Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[42] Inst High Energy Phys IHEP NRC Kurchatov Inst, Protvino, Russia
[43] Univ Sannio, Benevento, Italy
[44] Univ Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
[45] Natl Res Ctr Kurchatov Inst, Moscow, Russia
[46] Petersburg Nucl Phys PNPI NRC Kurchatov Inst, Gatchina, Russia
[47] Imperial Coll London, London, England
[48] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
[49] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow, Russia
[50] Ankara Univ, Ankara, Turkey
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
Beyond Standard Model; Fixed target experiments; PROCESSES INVOLVING NEUTRINOS; MAJORANA NEUTRINOS; STERILE NEUTRINOS; GENERAL-THEORY; DARK-MATTER; SEARCH; DECAYS; MASSES; BOUNDS; VMSM;
D O I
10.1007/JHEP04(2019)077
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model. These particles can, among other things, explain the origin of neutrino masses, generate the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe and provide a dark matter candidate. The SHiP experiment will be able to search for HNLs produced in decays of heavy mesons and travelling distances ranging between O(50 m) and tens of kilometers before decaying. We present the sensitivity of the SHiP experiment to a number of HNL's benchmark models and provide a way to calculate the SHiP's sensitivity to HNLs for arbitrary patterns of flavour mixings. The corresponding tools and data files are also made publicly available.
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