Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons
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Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Abellán Beteta, C.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Aidala, C. A
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
Albicocco, P.
Albrecht, J.
Alessio, F.
Date Issued
December 2018
Journal
The European Physical Journal C
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Citation
The European Physical Journal C. 2018 Dec 12;78(12):1008
Aaij, R., C. Abellán Beteta, B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, C. A. Aidala, Z. Ajaltouni, S. Akar, et al. “Search for Lepton-Flavour-Violating Decays of Higgs-Like Bosons.” The European Physical Journal C 78, no. 12 (December 2018). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-8.
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Abstract
Abstract
A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195
$$\,{{\mathrm {GeV/}}c^2}$$
GeV
/
c
2
decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8
$$~{\mathrm {TeV}}$$
TeV
, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2
$$\,\text{ fb }^{-1}$$
fb
-
1
. The tau leptons are reconstructed in both leptonic and hadronic decay channels. An upper limit on the production cross-section multiplied by the branching fraction at 95% confidence level is set and ranges from 22
$$\,{\mathrm {pb}}$$
pb
for a boson mass of 45
$$\,{{\mathrm {GeV/}}c^2}$$
GeV
/
c
2
to 4
$$\,{\mathrm {pb}}$$
pb
for a mass of 195
$$\,{{\mathrm {GeV/}}c^2}$$
GeV
/
c
2
.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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