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Hunting for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos with Lepton Number Violating Signatures at LHC
The neutrinophilic two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) provides a natural way
to generate tiny neutrino mass from interactions with the new doublet scalar
() and singlet neutrinos of TeV scale. In this
paper, we perform detailed simulations for the lepton number violating (LNV)
signatures at LHC arising from cascade decays of the new scalars and neutrinos
with the mass order . Under constraints from lepton
flavor violating processes and direct collider searches, their decay properties
are explored and lead to three types of LNV signatures: , , and . We
find that the same-sign trilepton signature is quite
unique and is the most promising discovery channel at the high-luminosity LHC.
Our analysis also yields the C.L. exclusion limits in the plane of the
and masses at 13 (14) TeV LHC with an integrated luminosity of
100~(3000)/fb.Comment: 31 pages, 17 figures, 6 tables; v2: added a few refs and updated one
ref, without other change
Mechanism of Polarization Fatigue in BiFeO3: the Role of Schottky Barrier
By using piezoelectric force microscopy and scanning Kelvin probe microscopy,
we have investigated the domain evolution and space charge distribution in
planar BiFeO3 capacitors with different electrodes. It is observed that charge
injection at the film/electrode interface leads to domain pinning and
polarization fatigue in BiFeO3. Furthermore, the Schottky barrier at the
interface is crucial for the charge injection process. Lowering the Schottky
barrier by using low work function metals as the electrodes can also improve
the fatigue property of the device, similar to what oxide electrodes can
achieve
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