Allbrooke, Benedict, Asquith, Lily, Cerri, Alessandro, Chavez Barajas, Carlos, De Santo, Antonella, Potter, Tina, Salvatore, Fabrizio, Santoyo Castillo, Itzebelt, Suruliz, Kerim, Sutton, Mark, Vivarelli, Iacopo and The ATLAS Collaboration, et al (2015) Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 11 (211). ISSN 1029-8479

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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 s √ =8 s=8 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%).

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Beyond Standard Model, Higgs physics, Lepton production
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Richard Chambers
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2016 11:41
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2017 11:11
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61609

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