This Letter presents direct searches for lepton flavour violation in Higgs boson decays, H→eτ and H→μτ, performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The searches are based on a data sample of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No significant excess is observed above the expected background from Standard Model processes. The observed (median expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are 0.47% (0.34−0.10+0.13%) and 0.28% (0.37−0.10+0.14%) for H→eτ and H→μτ, respectively.
Searches for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson in s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector / Aloisio, A., Alviggi, M., Canale, V., Della Pietra, M., Merola, L., Massarotti, P., Conventi, F., Rossi, E., Carlino, G., De Asmundis, R., Di Donato, C., Doria, A., Iengo, P., Izzo, V., Perrella, S., Sekhniaidze, G., Cirotto, F., Lavorgna, M., Giannini, A., Atlas, C., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - 800:(2020), p. 135069. [10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135069]
Searches for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson in s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
Aloisio, Alberto;Alviggi, MariaGrazia;Canale, Vincenzo;Della Pietra, Massimo;Merola, Leonardo;Massarotti, Paolo;Conventi, Francesco;Rossi, Elvira;de Asmundis, Riccardo;Perrella, Sabrina;Cirotto, Francesco;Lavorgna, Marco;LOFFREDO, Salvatore
2020
Abstract
This Letter presents direct searches for lepton flavour violation in Higgs boson decays, H→eτ and H→μτ, performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The searches are based on a data sample of proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. No significant excess is observed above the expected background from Standard Model processes. The observed (median expected) 95% confidence-level upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are 0.47% (0.34−0.10+0.13%) and 0.28% (0.37−0.10+0.14%) for H→eτ and H→μτ, respectively.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
