Oxana Smirnova
Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of division
Search for lepton-flavor-violating decays of the Z boson into a τ lepton and a light lepton with the ATLAS detector
Author
Summary, in English
Direct 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)
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2018
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physical Review D
Volume
98
Issue
9
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
American Physical Society
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2470-0010