Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √ s TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √ s TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria Pingel, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig WiglesworthGorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for the lepton flavor violating process Z → eμ in pp collisions using 20.3 fb^-1 of data collected at √s = 8 TeV. An enhancement in the eμ invariant mass spectrum is searched for at the Z-boson mass. The number of Z bosons produced in the data sample is estimated using events of similar topology, Z → ee and μμ, significantly reducing the systematic uncertainty in the measurement. There is no evidence of an enhancement at the Z-boson mass, resulting in an upper limit on the branching fraction, B(Z → 7.5 × 10.7 at the 95% confidence level.

Original language	English
Article number	072010
Journal	Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)
Volume	90
ISSN	1550-7998
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., Pingel, A. M., Løvschall-Jensen, A. E., Alonso Diaz, A., Monk, J. W., Pedersen, L. E., ... Galster, G. A. G. K. (2014). Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √ s TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), 90, Article 072010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072010

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G & Galster, GAGK 2014, 'Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √ s TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology), vol. 90, 072010. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072010>

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Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √ s TeV with the ATLAS detector

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