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

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; R. Aben; M. Abolins; O.S. AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; R. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; B.S. Acharya; L. Adamczyk; David L. Adams; J P Adelman; T. Adye; A. A. Affolder; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Simon Holm Stark; Geert-Jan Besjes; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Flavia de Almeida Dias

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

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, R. Aben, M. Abolins, O.S. AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, B.S. Acharya, L. Adamczyk, David L. Adams, J P Adelman, T. Adye, A. A. Affolder, Mogens DamJørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Simon Holm Stark, Geert-Jan Besjes, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Flavia de Almeida Dias

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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→ eτ, H→ μτ, and Z→ μτ. 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 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→ eτ) < 1.04 % , Br(H→ μτ) < 1.43 % , and Br(Z→ μτ) < 1.69 × 10 ^{- 5}.

Original language	English
Article number	70
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	77
Issue number	2
ISSN	1434-6044
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4624-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2017

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Aben, R., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D. L., Adelman, J. P., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., ... de Almeida Dias, F. (2017). Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C, 77(2), [70]. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4624-0

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Aben, R, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, BS, Adamczyk, L, Adams, DL, Adelman, JP, Adye, T, Affolder, AA, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK, Stark, SH, Besjes, G-J, Thiele, FAJ & de Almeida Dias, F 2017, 'Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector', European Physical Journal C, vol. 77, no. 2, 70. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4624-0

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

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