Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons

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The LHCb Collaboration; Boettcher, Thomas Julian; Craik, Daniel C; Weisser, Constantin; Williams, Michael
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Abstract
© 2018, CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration. A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195GeV/c2 decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2fb-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 22pb for a boson mass of 45GeV/c2 to 4pb for a mass of 195GeV/c2.
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2018
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133373.2
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields
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Springer Nature
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