Phys. Rev. D 62, 094017 (2000) [8 pages]

Signatures of heavy Majorana neutrinos and DESY HERA’s isolated lepton events

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W. Rodejohann *
Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik III, Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn Str. 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany

K. Zuber
Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Physik IV, Universität Dortmund, Otto-Hahn Str. 4, 44221 Dortmund, Germany

Received 12 April 2000; published 4 October 2000

The graph of neutrinoless double beta decay is applied to DESY HERA data and generalized to final states with any two charged leptons. Considered is the case in which one of the two escapes typical identification criteria and the case when a produced tau decays hadronically. Both possibilities give one isolated lepton with high transverse momentum, hadronic activity, and an imbalance in transverse momentum. We examine the kinematical properties of these events and compare them with the high pT isolated leptons reported by the H1 Collaboration. Their positive charged muon events can be explained by the “double beta” process and we discuss the possibilities for the precise determination which original final state produced the single isolated lepton. To confirm our hypothesis one should search in the data for high pseudorapidity and/or low pT leptons or for additional separated jets.


©2000 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v62/e094017
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.094017
PACS: 13.60.-r, 14.60.Pq, 14.60.St

* Email address: rodejoha@dilbert.physik.uni-dortmund.de
Email address: zuber@physik.uni-dortmund.de

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