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dc.contributor.authorCMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-20T21:16:02Z
dc.date.available2017-09-20T21:16:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-27
dc.identifier.citationThe CMS collaboration, Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A.M. et al. J. High Energ. Phys. (2016) 2016: 169. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)169en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/24976
dc.description.abstractA search is performed for heavy Majorana neutrinos (N) decaying into a W boson and a lepton using the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A signature of two jets and either two same sign electrons or a same sign electron-muon pair is searched for using 19.7 fb−1 of data collected during 2012 in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data are found to be consistent with the expected standard model (SM) background and, in the context of a Type-1 seesaw mechanism, upper limits are set on the cross section times branching fraction for production of heavy Majorana neutrinos in the mass range between 40 and 500 GeV. The results are additionally interpreted as limits on the mixing between the heavy Majorana neutrinos and the SM neutrinos. In the mass range considered, the upper limits range between 0.00015–0.72 for |VeN|2 and 6.6 × 10−5−0.47 for |VeNVμN∗|2/(|VeN|2 + |VμN|2), where VℓN is the mixing element describing the mixing of the heavy neutrino with the SM neutrino of flavour ℓ. These limits are the most restrictive direct limits for heavy Majorana neutrino masses above 200 GeV.en_US
dc.publisherSpringer Verlagen_US
dc.rightsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY.0)en_US
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dc.titleSearch for heavy Majorana neutrinos in e±e±+ jets and e±μ±+ jets events in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeVen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/JHEP04(2016)169en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
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