Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abdallah, J;
Abdinov, O;
Abeloos, B;
Aben, R;
Abolins, M;
... Zwalinski, L; + view all
(2016)
A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
New Journal of Physics
, 18
, Article 073021. 10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021.
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Abstract
A new search signature for excited leptons is explored. Excited muons are sought in the channel ${pp}\to \mu {\mu }^{* }\to \mu \mu \ {\rm{jet}}\;{\rm{jet}}$, assuming both the production and decay occur via a contact interaction. The analysis is based on 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}\;=\;8\;{\rm{TeV}}$ taken with the ATLAS detector at the large hadron collider. No evidence of excited muons is found, and limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-muon mass ${m}_{{\mu }^{* }}$. For ${m}_{{\mu }^{* }}$ between 1.3 and 3.0 TeV, the upper limit on $\sigma B({\mu }^{* }\to \mu q\bar{q}$) is between 0.6 and 1 fb. Limits on $\sigma B$ are converted to lower bounds on the compositeness scale Λ. In the limiting case ${\rm{\Lambda }}={m}_{{\mu }^{* }}$, excited muons with a mass below 2.8 TeV are excluded. With the same model assumptions, these limits at larger ${\mu }^{* }$ masses improve upon previous limits from traditional searches based on the gauge-mediated decay ${\mu }^{* }\to \mu \gamma $.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/7/073021 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
| Keywords: | excited leptons, lepton compositeness, leptoquarks |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1485228 |
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