Hadronic heavy neutral lepton decays to the limit

Abstract

Heavy Neutral Leptons are a class of hypothetical particle, motivated by simultaneously solving multiple of the standing issues of the Standard Model. In this work we investigate the decay structure of this type of particle in the hadronic picture for multi-body final states. We propose to link the resulting hadronic description to a partonic description in a seamless transition based on the hadron system's invariant mass. Beyond the impact on the total HNL lifetime, we will show that the multi-hadron channels emerging in this description can constitute interesting experimental signatures.

Comments: 22 pages, 18 figures, 9 tables