Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons
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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
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The European Physical Journal C
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Aaij, R., et al. “Search for Lepton-Flavour-Violating Decays of Higgs-like Bosons.” The European Physical Journal C, vol. 78, no. 12, Dec. 2018. © 2018 CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration
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Abstract
A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 19 GeV/c[superscript 2] decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb[superscript -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 pb for a boson mass of 45 GeV/c[superscript 2]to 4 pb for a mass of 195 GeV/c[superscript 2].
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-8
