A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

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A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

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Anew search signature for excited leptons is explored. Excited muons are sought in the channel pp → μμ∗→ μμ jet jet, assuming both the production and decay occur via a contact interaction. The analysis is based on 20.3 fb-1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 8 TeV taken with the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider. No evidence of excited muons is found, and limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-muonmass μμ∗. For μμ∗between 1.3 and 3.0 TeV, the upper limit on φB (μ∗→ μqq) is between 0.6 and 1 fb. Limits on sB are converted to lower bounds on the compositeness scale. In the limiting case L = μμ∗, excitedmuonswith amass below2.8 TeVare excluded.With the samemodel assumptions, these limits at larger μ∗masses improve upon previous limits fromtraditional searches based on the gauge-mediated decay μ∗→ μγ.

Original language	English
Article number	073021
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	18
ISSN	1367-2630
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2016

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Aben, R., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., ... Pedersen, L. E. (2016). A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. New Journal of Physics, 18, [073021]. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK & Pedersen, LE 2016, 'A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector', New Journal of Physics, vol. 18, 073021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021

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A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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