Search for excited electrons and muons in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; T. Abajyan; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S.A. Khalek; Mogens Dam; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; John Renner Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Sascha Mehlhase; Björn Stefan Nilsson; Troels Christian Petersen; Stefania Xella

doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011

Search for excited electrons and muons in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S.A. Khalek, Mogens Dam, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, John Renner Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Sascha Mehlhase, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella

Experimental Particle Physics

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Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for excited electrons and excited muons in the channel pp → ℓℓ* → ℓℓγ, assuming that excited leptons are produced via contact interactions. The analysis is based on 13 fb^-1 of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No evidence for excited leptons is found, and a limit is set at the 95% credibility level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-lepton mass m_ℓ*. For m_ℓ* 0.8 TeV, the respective upper limits on σB(ℓ* → ℓγ) are 0.75 and 0.90 fb for the e* and μ* searches. Limits on σB are converted into lower bounds on the compositeness scale Λ. In the special case where Λ = m _ℓ*, excited-electron and excited-muon masses below 2.2 TeV are excluded.

Original language	English
Article number	093011
Journal	New Journal of Physics
Volume	15
ISSN	1367-2630
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011
Publication status	Published - 6 Sept 2013

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Aad, G., Abajyan, T., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Khalek, S. A., Dam, M., Hansen, J. B., Hansen, P. H., Hansen, J. R., Hansen, J. D., Heisterkamp, S. J. F., Jørgensen, M. D., Boelaert, N. M. P., Klinkby, E. B., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., Mehlhase, S., Nilsson, B. S., Petersen, T. C., & Xella, S. (2013). Search for excited electrons and muons in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector. New Journal of Physics, 15, Article 093011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011

Aad, G, Abajyan, T, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Khalek, SA, Dam, M , Hansen, JB , Hansen, PH , Hansen, JR , Hansen, JD, Heisterkamp, SJF, Jørgensen, MD, Boelaert, NMP, Klinkby, EB, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Mehlhase, S, Nilsson, BS, Petersen, TC & Xella, S 2013, 'Search for excited electrons and muons in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector', New Journal of Physics, vol. 15, 093011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011

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