Probing a new decay of vector-like top partner mediated by heavy Majorana neutrino via single production

Abstract

Models beyond the Standard Model have been proposed to simultaneously solve the problems of naturalness and neutrino mass, in which heavy Majorana neutrinos and vector-like top partners are usually predicted. A new decay channel of the top partner mediated by the heavy Majorana neutrino can thus appear: $T\to b{W}^{+}\to b{\ell }^{+}{\ell }^{+}q\overline{q^{\prime }}$. We study in this paper the observability of this decay process through single production of the top partner at the 14 TeV LHC: $pp\to T/\bar{T}$+jets$\to b/\bar{b}+{\mu }^{\pm }{\mu }^{\pm }$+jets. $2\sigma$ exclusion bounds on the top partner mass and mixing parameters are given by Monte-Carlo simulation, which surpass those from the search through VLT pair production in the mass range of $m_T>1.3$ TeV.

Comments: 16 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; Accepted by Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.09199