Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2015)211

Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

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Abstract

A direct search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the recently discovered Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed in the H → μτ_had channel, where τ_had is a hadronically decaying τ -lepton. The search is based on the data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb⁻¹ at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV. No statistically significant excess of data over the predicted background is observed. The observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limit on the branching fraction, Br(H → μτ ), is 1.85% (1.24%).[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English
Article number	211
Pages (from-to)	1-33
Number of pages	33
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2015
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)211
State	Published - Nov 1 2015

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model
Hadron-Hadron Scattering
Higgs physics
Lepton production

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Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

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