A potential scenario for the Majorana neutrino detection at future lepton colliders

Abstract

The existence of Majorana neutrinos must lead to lepton-number violating processes, and the Majorana nature of neutrinos can only be experimentally verified via lepton-number violating processes. We propose a new approach to search for Majorana neutrinos at future electron-positron colliders by exploiting this feature. We investigate the $ΔL = 2$ like-sign dilepton production and find that lepton colliders with different center-of-mass energies have comparative advantages in resonant production of a Majorana neutrino in either light neutrino mass range or heavy mass range. At the future Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), with 250 GeV center-of-mass energy and 5 ab$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity, we find that there could be more significant sensitivity for resonant production of a Majorana neutrino in the mass range of 5-80 GeV than previous results at LEP2 or LHC. At the 1 TeV ILC with 1 ab$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity, it has better sensitivity than the similar process at LHC while the neutrino mass is larger than 250 GeV.

15 pages, 10 figures