Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
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 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 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 22pb for a boson mass of 45GeV/c2 to 4pb for a mass of 195GeV/c2.
Date Issued
2018-12-12
Date Acceptance
2018-10-29
Citation
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 2018, 78 (12)
ISSN
1434-6044
Publisher
Springer Verlag (Germany)
Journal / Book Title
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
Volume
78
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration 2018. Funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
Publication Status
Published
OA Location
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140%2Fepjc%2Fs10052-018-6386-8.pdf
Article Number
ARTN 1008
Date Publish Online
2018-12-12