Eur. Phys. J. C (2023) 83: 568
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11751-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Testing neutrino dipole portal by long-lived particle detectors at the LHC

¹ Department of Applied Physics and MIIT Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Microstructure and Quantum Sensing, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094, Nanjing, China
² School of Physics, Hefei University of Technology, 230601, Hefei, China

^b dayu@hfut.edu.cn

Received: 13 April 2023
Accepted: 23 June 2023
Published online: 6 July 2023

Abstract

We discuss the potential of using detectors aimed for searching long-lived particles (LLP) at the high-luminosity LHC run, to probe the neutrino dipole models. This is achieved by taking the heavy neutral leptons (HNL) of the models as candidates of the LLPs. Taking into account the dipole couplings to the weak bosons, $d_{W,Z}$, which control the production of the HNLs at the LHC, we discuss the reach on the electromagnetic dipole couplings, $d_{\gamma }$, by searching for a single high-energy photon at LLP detectors. Four typical scenarios are considered in this paper, scenario A, B with $d_W=0$ or $d_Z=0$, and scenario C, D with $d_{W,Z}\gg d_{\gamma }$. We show the sensitivity on $d_{\gamma }$, can be fairly different depending on the relations between the $d_{W,Z}$ and $d_{\gamma }$. And the LLP detectors can potentially extend the sensitivity on dipole couplings during the high-luminosity runs of the LHC in certain scenarios.