Heavy neutral leptons in gauged U(1) L µ −L τ at muon collider* *Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12375074, 11805081) and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (ZR2019QA021)

Abstract

Heavy neutral leptons N are the most appealing candidates to generate tiny neutrino masses. We studied the signature of heavy neutral leptons in gauged at a muon collider. Charged under the symmetry, the heavy neutral leptons can be pair produced via the new gauge boson at the muon collider as and . We then performed a detailed analysis on the lepton number violation signature and at the 3 TeV muon collider, where the hadronic decays of W boson are treated as fat-jets J. These lepton number violation signatures have quite clean backgrounds at the muon collider. Our simulation shows that a wide range of viable parameter space is within the reach of the 3 TeV muon collider. For instance, with new gauge coupling and an integrated luminosity of 1000 fb , the signal could probe TeV. Meanwhile, if the gauge boson mass satisfies , the signature would be more promising than the signature.