Heavy neutrino signals at large hadron colliders Águila Giménez, Francisco Del Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio Pittau, Roberto Neutrino physics Beyond Standard Model Hadronic colliders We study the LHC discovery potential for heavy Majorana neutrino singlets in the process pp -> W+ -> l+ N -> l+ l+ jj (l=e,mu) plus its charge conjugate. With a fast detector simulation we show that backgrounds involving two like-sign charged leptons are not negligible and, moreover, they cannot be eliminated with simple sequential kinematical cuts. Using a likelihood analysis it is shown that, for heavy neutrinos coupling only to the muon, LHC has 5 sigma sensitivity for masses up to 200 GeV in the final state mu+- mu+- jj. This reduction in sensitivity, compared to previous parton-level estimates, is driven by the ~ 10^2-10^3 times larger background. Limits are also provided for e+- e+- jj and e+- mu+- jj final states, as well as for Tevatron. For heavy Dirac neutrinos the prospects are worse because backgrounds involving two opposite charge leptons are much larger. For this case, we study the observability of the lepton flavour violating signal e+- mu-+ jj. As a by-product of our analysis, heavy neutrino production has been implemented within the ALPGEN framework. 2014-03-05T09:24:02Z 2014-03-05T09:24:02Z 2007 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Águila, F.; Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A.; Pittau, R. Heavy neutrino signals at large hadron colliders. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10: 047 (2007). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30673] 1029-8479 doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/10/047 arXiv:hep-ph/0703261v4 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30673 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License IOP Publishing