Search for a heavy composite Majorana neutrino in the final state with two leptons and two quarks at s=13TeV
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol.775, pp.315-337, 2017 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 775
- Publication Date: 2017
- Doi Number: 10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.001
- Journal Name: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.315-337
- Keywords: CMS, Exotica
- Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
A search for physics beyond the standard model in the final state with two same-flavour leptons (electrons or muons) and two quarks produced in proton–proton collisions at s=13TeV is presented. The data were recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.3fb−1. The observed data are in good agreement with the standard model background prediction. The results of the measurement are interpreted in the framework of a recently proposed model in which a heavy Majorana neutrino, Nℓ, stems from a composite-fermion scenario. Exclusion limits are set for the first time on the mass of the heavy composite Majorana neutrino, mNℓ , and the compositeness scale Λ. For the case mNℓ =Λ, the existence of Ne (Nμ) is excluded for masses up to 4.60 (4.70) TeV at 95% confidence level.