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Quantitative study on helicity inversion in Majorana neutrino decays at the LHC

We report an analytical and numerical investigation into the impact of helicity inversion in LHC processes that do not conserve lepton number (L). As a case study, we focus on the production and decay of Majorana neutrinos (N) through on- and off-shell W bosons in the phenomenological type I seesaw...

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