Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector

Direct searches for lepton flavour violation in decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The following three decays are considered: H → eτ , H → μτ, and Z → μτ. The searches are based on the data sample of proton–proton collisions collected by the ATLAS dete...

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Autores: Alconada Verzini, María Josefina, Alonso, Francisco, Arduh, Francisco Anuar, Dova, María Teresa, Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel, Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo, The ATLAS Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/79295
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/79295
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias Exactas
Física
leptons
Higgs boson
z boson
ATLAS detector
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Sumario:Direct searches for lepton flavour violation in decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The following three decays are considered: H → eτ , H → μτ, and Z → μτ. The searches are based on the data sample of proton–proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are set at the 95% confidence level: Br(H → eτ) < 1.04%, Br(H → μτ) < 1.43%, and Br(Z → μτ) < 1.69 × 10−5.