Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a r lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
- NázevTitle
- Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a r lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detectorSearch for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a r lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B. Ali, K. Augsten, D. Caforio, P. Gallus, M. Havránek, Z. Hubáček, M. Myška, R. Novotný, S. Pospíšil, T. Slavíček, K. Smolek, M. Solar, A. Sopczak, M. Suk, V. Vacek, P. Vokáč, V. Vrba
- DOIDOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.092010
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- PHYSICAL REVIEW D. 2018, 98(9), ISSN 2470-0010.
- RokYear
- 2018
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- WoSWoS
- 000450140300002
- ScopusScopus
- 2-s2.0-85058124144
- RIVRIV
- RIV/68407700:21220/18:00329318!RIV19-MSM-21220___
- ProjektProject
- Centrum pokročilých aplikovaných přírodních vědCenter for advanced applied sciences; Získávání nových poznatků o mikrosvětě v infrastruktuře CERNAcquiring new pieces of knowledge about micro-world in CERN research infrastructure
AbstraktAbstract
Direct searches for lepton flavor violation in decays of the Z boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Decays of the Z boson into an electron or muon and a hadronically decaying r lepton are considered. The searches are based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV. No statistically significant excess of events above the expected background is observed, and upper limits on the branching ratios of lepton-flavor-violating decays are set at the 95% confidence level: B(Z -> e tau) < 5.8 x 10(-5) and B(Z -> mu tau) < 2.4 x 10(-5). This is the first limit on B(Z -> e tau) with ATLAS data. The upper limit on 13(Z -> mu tau) is combined with a previous ATLAS result based on 20.3 fb(-1) of proton protoncollision data at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV and the combined upper limit at 95% confidence level is B(Z -> mu tau) < 1.3 x 10(-5).
Direct searches for lepton flavor violation in decays of the Z boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Decays of the Z boson into an electron or muon and a hadronically decaying r lepton are considered. The searches are based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV. No statistically significant excess of events above the expected background is observed, and upper limits on the branching ratios of lepton-flavor-violating decays are set at the 95% confidence level: B(Z -> e tau) < 5.8 x 10(-5) and B(Z -> mu tau) < 2.4 x 10(-5). This is the first limit on B(Z -> e tau) with ATLAS data. The upper limit on 13(Z -> mu tau) is combined with a previous ATLAS result based on 20.3 fb(-1) of proton protoncollision data at a center-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV and the combined upper limit at 95% confidence level is B(Z -> mu tau) < 1.3 x 10(-5).