SAME-SIGN DILEPTON PRODUCTION VIA HEAVY MAJORANA NEUTRINOS IN PROTON–PROTON COLLISIONS

Abstract

We discuss same-sign dilepton production mediated by Majorana neutrinos in high-energy proton-proton collisions $pp\ra \ell^+ \ell^{\prime +}X$ for $\ell,~ \ell^\prime = e,~ \mu,~ \tau$ at the LHC energy $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. Assuming one heavy Majorana neutrino of mass $m_N$, we present discovery limits in the $(m_{N},|U_{\ell N}U_{\ell^\prime N}|)$ plane where $U_{\ell N}$ are the mixing parameters. Taking into account the present limits from low energy experiments, we show that at LHC one has sensitivity to heavy Majorana neutrinos up to a mass $m_{N}\leq 2$ -- 5 TeV in the dilepton channels $\mu\mu,~ \tau\tau$, and $\mu\tau$, but the dilepton states $e\ell$ will not be detectable due to the already existing constraints from neutrinoless double beta decay.