Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless tau -> 3 mu decays with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, M. Abolins, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, B.S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, David L. Adams, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Almut Maria PingelAsk Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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Abstract

This article presents the sensitivity of theATLAS experiment to the lepton-flavour-violating decays of τ → 3μ. A method utilising the production of τ leptons via W → τν decays is used. This method is applied to the sample of 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. No event is observed passing the selection criteria,and the observed (expected) upper limit on the τ lepton branching fraction into three muons,Br(τ → 3μ),is 3.76 × 10−7 (3.94 × 10−7) at 90 % confidence level.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer232
TidsskriftEuropean Physical Journal C
Vol/bind76
Udgave nummer5
ISSN1434-6044
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 26 apr. 2016

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