Search for the lepton flavor violating τ → 3μ decay in proton-proton collisions at √ =13 TeV

Asearch for the lepton flavor violating τ → 3μ decay is performed using proton-proton collision events at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2017–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 97.7 fb−1. Tau leptons produced in both heavy-flavor hadron...

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Autores: Hayrapetyan, Aram, Silveira, Gustavo Gil da, Bernardes, César Augusto, CMS Collaboration
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:www.lume.ufrgs.br:10183/291864
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10183/291864
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Aceleradores de partículas
Colisões proton-proton
CMS
BSM
CLFV
Charged lepton flavor violation
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Sumario:Asearch for the lepton flavor violating τ → 3μ decay is performed using proton-proton collision events at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2017–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 97.7 fb−1. Tau leptons produced in both heavy-flavor hadron and W boson decays are exploited in the analysis. No evidence for the decay is observed. The results of this search are combined with an earlier null result based on data collected in 2016 to obtain a total integrated luminosity of 131 fb−1. The observed (expected) upper limits on the branching fraction B(τ → 3μ) at confidence levels of 90 and 95% are 2.9 x 10-8 (2.4 x 10-8) and 3.6 x 10-8 (3.0 x 10-8), respectively.