Lepton nonconservation at supercollider energies

Mar, 1991
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 44 (1991) 2033-2037
Report number:
  • DOE-ER40200-223

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Abstract: (APS)
The lepton-nonconserving rare process pp→(jet)1(jet)2e+e+, without missing pT, is the high-energy analog of neutrinoless nuclear double-β decay. It is shown to be a possible signal to search for a heavy Majorana electronlike neutrino Ne in the mass intervals 150-1400 GeV and 450-1700 GeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Superconducting Super Collider, respectively, with event rates of a few per year. However, standard-model backgrounds probably preclude seeing this process at the LHC.
  • p p: interaction
  • interaction: p p
  • jet: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: jet
  • positron: hadroproduction
  • hadroproduction: positron
  • lepton number: violation
  • neutrino: heavy
  • neutrino: Majorana
  • neutrino: mass