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A search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the $Z$ boson into a $\tau$-lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector

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dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2920 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
dc.contributor.authorAraque Espinosa, Juan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muino, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
dc.contributor.authorDias DO Vale, Tiago
dc.contributor.authorFaisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGalhardo, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGoncalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amelia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, Jose
dc.contributor.authorMendes Gouveia, Emanuel Demetrio
dc.contributor.authorOleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorCosta Batalha Pedro, Rute
dc.contributor.authorPereira Peixoto, Ana Paula
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, Joao
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Jose Manuel
dc.contributor.authorTavares Delgado, Ademar
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-05T16:15:37Z
dc.date.available2019-02-05T16:15:37Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-15
dc.date.updated2019-02-05T16:15:37Z
dc.description.abstractDirect searches for lepton flavor violation in decays of the Z boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. Decays of the Z boson into an electron or muon and a hadronically decaying τ lepton are considered. The searches are based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1  fb-1 at a center-of-mass energy of s=13  TeV. No statistically significant excess of events above the expected background is observed, and upper limits on the branching ratios of lepton-flavor-violating decays are set at the 95% confidence level: B(Z→eτ)<5.8×10-5 and B(Z→μτ)<2.4×10-5. This is the first limit on B(Z→eτ) with ATLAS data. The upper limit on B(Z→μτ) is combined with a previous ATLAS result based on 20.3  fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of s=8  TeV and the combined upper limit at 95% confidence level is B(Z→μτ)<1.3×10-5.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierPhys.Rev. D98 (2018) 092010; DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.092010
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.092010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27622
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleA search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the $Z$ boson into a $\tau$-lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
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