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Probing heavy neutrino magnetic moments at the LHC using long-lived particle searches

Beltran, Rebeca; Bolton, Patrick D; Deppisch, Frank F; Hati, Chandan; Hirsch, Martin; (2024) Probing heavy neutrino magnetic moments at the LHC using long-lived particle searches. Journal of High Energy Physics , 2024 (7) , Article 153. 10.1007/JHEP07(2024)153. Green open access

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Abstract

We explore long-lived particle (LLP) searches using non-pointing photons at the LHC as a probe for sterile-to-sterile and active-to-sterile transition magnetic dipole moments of sterile neutrinos. We consider heavy sterile neutrinos with masses ranging from a few GeV to several hundreds of GeV. We discuss transition magnetic dipole moments using the Standard Model effective field theory and low-energy effective field theory extended by sterile neutrinos (N_{R}SMEFT and N_{R}LEFT) and also provide a simplified UV-complete model example. LLP searches at the LHC using non-pointing photons will probe sterile-to-sterile dipole moments two orders of magnitude below the current best constraints from LEP, while an unprecedented sensitivity to sterile neutrino mass of about 700 GeV is expected for active-to-sterile dipole moments. For the UV model example with one-loop transition magnetic moments, the searches for charged lepton flavour violating processes in synergy with LLP searches at the LHC can probe new physics at several TeV mass scales and provide valuable insights into the lepton flavour structure of new physics couplings.

Type: Article
Title: Probing heavy neutrino magnetic moments at the LHC using long-lived particle searches
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2024)153
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2024)153
Language: English
Additional information: © 2025 Springer Nature. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10216911
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