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We study displaced signatures of sneutrino pairs potentially emerging at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in a Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model supplemented with right-handed neutrinos triggering a Type-I seesaw mechanism. We show how such signatures can be established through a heavy Higgs portal, the sneutrinos then decaying to charged leptons and charginos giving rise to further leptons or hadrons. We finally illustrate how the Yukawa parameters of neutrinos can be extracted by measuring the lifetime of the sneutrino from the displaced vertices, thereby characterising the dynamics of the underlying mechanism of neutrino mass generation. We show our numerical results for the case of both the current and High-Luminosity LHC.
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Chakraborty, A., Moretti, S., Shepherd-Themistocleous, C.H. et al. Extraction of neutrino Yukawa parameters from displaced vertices of sneutrinos. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 27 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)027
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