Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

A direct search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the recently discovered Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed in the H → μτ<sub>had</sub> channel, where τ<sub>had</sub> is a hadronically decaying τ-lepton. The sea...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Dova, María Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo, The ATLAS Collaboration
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/79544
Acesso em linha:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/79544
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Ciencias Exactas
Física
hadron-hadron scattering
Higgs physics
leptons
Descrição
Resumo:A direct search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the recently discovered Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed in the H → μτ<sub>had</sub> channel, where τ<sub>had</sub> is a hadronically decaying τ-lepton. The search is based on the data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb<sup>-1</sup> at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8TeV. No statistically signi cant excess of data over the predicted background is observed. The observed (expected) 95% con dence-level upper limit on the branching fraction, Br(H → μτ), is 1.85% (1.24%).