Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.031801

Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
AGH University of Krakow
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Liverpool
University of Belgrade
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
University of Bern
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Université Grenoble Alpes
Instituto de Física La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of Birmingham

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This Letter presents a search for a heavy neutral particle decaying into an opposite-sign different-flavor dilepton pair, e±μ±, e±τ±, or μ±τ± using 20.3 fb-1 of pp collision data at s=8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The numbers of observed candidate events are compatible with the standard model expectations. Limits are set on the cross section of new phenomena in two scenarios: the production of ντ in R-parity-violating supersymmetric models and the production of a lepton-flavor-violating Z′ vector boson.

Original language	English
Article number	031801
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	115
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.031801
State	Published - 2015

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Search for a Heavy Neutral Particle Decaying to eμ, eτ, or μτ in pp Collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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