Neutrino dipole moments and radiative signatures from partial compositeness

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bstract

We investigate composite neutrino models where heavy neutrinos emerge as bound states from a near-conformal strongly coupled sector. Standard Model neutrinos mix with these composite singlets via an inverse seesaw mechanism, where the anomalous scaling dimensions of the composite-sector operators naturally suppress light neutrino masses to sub-eV scales. Matching the conformal dynamics onto low-energy theory yields enhanced electromagnetic transition dipole operators with couplings d _μN ~ 10 ⁻⁶ –10 ⁻⁸ GeV ⁻¹ , parametrically larger than the loop-level predictions of minimal Dirac or Majorana models. We carry out a dedicated event-level simulation of the production-and-decay chain

and compute the resulting event rates at MiniBooNE and MINERvA within the model, accounting for the composite production cross section and decay kinematics in detail. We further present predictions for the photon energy, angular, and multiplicity distributions. For the benchmark scenarios accessible at these experiments the radiative signal is predominantly single-photon; the composite structure additionally permits fragmentation of the up-scattered state into multiple heavy neutrinos, each decaying as N → νγ , with multi-photon final states emerging for lighter compositeness scales or higher beam energies as a qualitatively new probe of the composite dynamics.