Heavy Majorana neutrinos at a very large electron-proton collider

Almeida Jr., F. M. L.; Coutinho, Y. A.; Simões, J. A. Martins; Vale, M. A. B. do

Heavy Majorana neutrinos at a very large electron-proton collider

Authors

Almeida Jr., F. M. L.

Coutinho, Y. A.

Simões, J. A. Martins

Vale, M. A. B. do

Description

We study the discovery potential for detecting new neutral heavy Majorana leptons as suggested by some extentions of the Standard Model in recently proposed electron-proton colliders. Since 1998-1999 the option of an electron-proton collider for the Very Large Hadron Collider at Fermilab operating with the proton booster has been considered. We study the reaction $e^{-}p \longrightarrow e^{+}+ jets$ and present estimates for the signal and Standard Model background including hadronization.
3 pages and 5 figures To appear in Physical Review D