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Probing Sterile Neutrinos Using Decay Width Measurements at Colliders

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We show that the measured decay widths of Higgs, Z and W bosons can be used to probe sterile neutrinos, if they are kinematically allowed to be produced from these heavy Standard Model (SM) particle decays via the active-sterile neutrino mixing. We analyse the sensitivity of these measured SM quantities to constrain the active-sterile neutrino mixing as a function of the sterile neutrino mass. We make a comparative study of these constraints with other existing constraints from electroweak precision data, beam dump experiments as well as from peak searches.

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Sahoo, L. Probing Sterile Neutrinos Using Decay Width Measurements at Colliders. Int J Theor Phys 61, 200 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-022-05194-8

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