Heavy neutrino mixing prospects at hadron colliders: a machine learning study

Abstract

We apply machine learning to the searches of heavy neutrino mixing in the inverse seesaw in the framework of left-right symmetric model at the high-energy hadron colliders. The Majorana nature of heavy neutrinos can induce the processes $pp \to W_R^\pm \to \ell_\alpha^\pm N \to \ell_\alpha^\pm \ell_\beta^{\mp,\,\pm} jj$, with opposite-sign (OS) and same-sign (SS) dilepton and two jets in the final state. The distributions of the charged leptons $\ell = e ,\, \mu$ and jets and their correlations are utilized as input for machine learning analysis. It is found that for both the OS and SS processes, XGBoost can efficiently distinguish signals from the standard model backgrounds. We estimate the sensitivities of heavy neutrino mass $m_N$ and their mixing in the OS and SS $ee$, $\mu\mu$ and $e\mu$ final states at $\sqrt{s} = 14$ TeV, 27 TeV and 100 TeV. It turns out that the heavy neutrinos can be probed up to 17.1 TeV and 19.5 TeV in the OS and SS channels, respectively. The sine of the mixing angle of heavy neutrinos can be probed up to the maximal value of $\sqrt2/2$ and 0.69 in the OS and SS channels, respectively.