Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eμ eτ or μτ with the ATLAS detector in √s=7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

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doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.035

Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eμ eτ or μτ with the ATLAS detector in √s=7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

ATLAS Collaboration

iThemba Labs
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
CERN
University of Freiburg
University of Bonn
University of Oklahoma
Autonomous University of Barcelona
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Geneva
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Oklahoma State University
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
United States Department of Energy
Hampton University
Yale University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Queen Mary University of London
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Brandeis University
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
University of Bern
Boston University
Stony Brook University
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Victoria BC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
University of Udine
Humboldt University of Berlin

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Abstract

This Letter presents the results of a search for a heavy particle decaying into an e^±μ^∓, e^±τ^∓, or μ^±τ^∓ final state in pp collisions at s=7 TeV. The data were recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2011 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb⁻¹. No significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed, and exclusions at 95% confidence level are placed on the cross section times branching ratio for the production of an R-parity-violating supersymmetric tau sneutrino. For a sneutrino mass of 500 (2000) GeV, the observed limits on the production cross section times branching ratio are 3.2 (1.4) fb, 42 (17) fb, and 40 (18) fb for the eμ eτ and μτ modes, respectively. These results considerably extend constraints from Tevatron experiments.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-32
Number of pages	18
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	723
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.035
State	Published - Jun 10 2013

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Search for a heavy narrow resonance decaying to eμ eτ or μτ with the ATLAS detector in √s=7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC

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