Polarized window for left-right symmetry and a right-handed neutrino at the Large Hadron-Electron Collider

Abstract

The breaking of parity, a fundamental symmetry between left and right is best understood in the framework of left-right symmetric extension of the standard model. We show that the production of a heavy right-handed neutrino at the proposed Large Hadron-Electron Collider (LHeC) could give us the most simple and direct hint of the scale of this breaking in left-right symmetric theories. This production mode gives a lepton number violating signal with \(\Delta L=2\) which is very clean and has practically no standard model background. We highlight that the right-handed nature of \(W_R\) exchange which defines the left-right symmetric theories can be confirmed by using a polarized electron beam and also enhance the production rates with relatively lower beam energy.