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

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Aad, G. [119 ,120 ]
Abbott, B. [151 ]
Abdallah, J. [95 ]
Abdinov, O. [15 ]
Abeloos, B. [155 ]
Aben, R. [144 ,145 ]
Abolins, M. [125 ]
AbouZeid, O. S. [191 ]
Abraham, N. L. [208 ]
Abramowicz, H. [212 ]
Abreu, H. [211 ]
Abreu, R. [154 ]
Abulaiti, Y. [203 ,204 ]
Acharya, B. S. [225 ,226 ,246 ]
Adamczyk, L. [62 ]
Adams, D. L. [38 ]
Adelman, J. [146 ]
Adomeit, S. [135 ]
Adye, T. [177 ]
Affolder, A. A. [108 ]
Agatonovic-Jovin, T. [17 ]
Agricola, J. [82 ]
Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. [166 ,171 ,172 ]
Ahlen, S. P. [32 ]
Ahmadov, F. [97 ,247 ]
Aielli, G. [180 ,181 ]
Akerstedt, H. [203 ,204 ]
Akesson, T. P. A. [115 ]
Akimov, A. V. [131 ]
Alberghi, G. L. [29 ,30 ]
Albert, J. [236 ]
Albrand, S. [83 ]
Verzini, M. J. Alconada [103 ,104 ]
Aleksa, M. [44 ]
Aleksandrov, I. N. [97 ]
Alexa, C. [39 ]
Alexander, G. [212 ]
Alexopoulos, T. [13 ]
Alhroob, M. [151 ]
Aliev, M. [106 ,107 ]
Alimonti, G. [126 ]
Alison, J. [45 ]
Alkire, S. P. [58 ]
Allbrooke, B. M. M. [208 ]
Allen, B. W. [154 ]
Allport, P. P. [23 ]
Aloisio, A. [18 ,44 ,140 ,141 ]
Alonso, A. [59 ]
Alonso, F. [103 ,104 ]
Alpigiani, C. [192 ]
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[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] SUNY Albany, Dept Phys, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[3] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[4] Ankara Univ, Dept Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[5] Istanbul Aydin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey
[6] TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Div Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[7] CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Argonne Natl Lab, Div High Energy Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[10] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[11] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, POB 19059, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[12] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Athens, Greece
[13] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Zografos, Greece
[14] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Phys, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[15] Azerbaijan Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Baku, Azerbaijan
[16] Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, IFAE, Barcelona, Spain
[17] Univ Belgrade, Inst Phys, Belgrade, Serbia
[18] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[19] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Phys, Berkeley, CA USA
[20] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
[21] Humboldt Univ, Dept Phys, Berlin, Germany
[22] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[23] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[24] Bogazici Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkey
[25] Gaziantep Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Gaziantep, Turkey
[26] Istanbul Bilgi Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[27] Bahcesehir Univ, Fac Engn & Nat Sci, Istanbul, Turkey
[28] Univ Antonio Narino, Ctr Invest, Bogota, Colombia
[29] INFN, Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[30] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Bologna, Italy
[31] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, Bonn, Germany
[32] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, 590 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[33] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[34] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, COPPE, EE, IF, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[35] Univ Fed Juiz de Fora, Elect Circuits Dept, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
[36] Univ Fed Sao Joao del Rei, Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil
[37] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[38] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[39] Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[40] Natl Inst Res & Dev Isotop & Mol Technol, Dept Phys, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[41] Univ Buenos Aires, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[42] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge, England
[43] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[44] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[45] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, 5640 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[46] Catholic Univ Chile, Dept Fis, Santiago, Chile
[47] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Valparaiso, Chile
[48] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[49] Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Modern Phys, Hefei, Anhui, Peoples R China
[50] Nanjing Univ, Dept Phys, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2017年 / 77卷 / 02期
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 欧盟地平线“2020”; 美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4624-0
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
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 -> e tau, H -> mu tau, and Z -> mu tau. 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 root 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 -> e tau) < 1.04%, Br(H -> mu tau) < 1.43%, and Br(Z -> mu tau) < 1.69 x 10(-5).
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