Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032001

Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons 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
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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A search for the pair production of heavy leptons (N0,L±) predicted by the type-III seesaw theory formulated to explain the origin of small neutrino masses is presented. The decay channels N0→W±l (=e,μ,τ) and L±→W±ν (ν=νe,νμ,ντ) are considered. The analysis is performed using the final state that contains two leptons (electrons or muons), two jets from a hadronically decaying W boson and large missing transverse momentum. The data used in the measurement correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 of pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of heavy lepton pair production is observed. Heavy leptons with masses below 325-540 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, depending on the theoretical scenario considered.

Original language	English
Article number	032001
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	92
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032001
State	Published - Aug 3 2015

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Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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