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Search for lepton flavour violation in ep collisions at HERA

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  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Inter-University Institute for High Energies ULB-VUB
  • University of Antwerp
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • University Roma Tre
  • Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • University of Montenegro
  • Yerevan Physics Institute
  • Universités Paris VI and VII
  • Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
  • Institute of Physics and Technology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Heidelberg
  • University of Dortmund
  • ETH Zurich
  • University of Belgrade
  • Institute of Experimental Physics Slovak Academy of Sciences
  • Universität Hamburg
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • Dept. Fis. Ap. CINVESTAV
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • Charles University
  • Comenius University
  • CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS and CEA
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Liverpool
  • Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Paul Scherrer Institut
  • Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Birmingham
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Lund University
  • Lancaster University
  • University of P.J. Šafárik
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
  • Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

A search for the lepton flavour violating processes ep → μX and ep → τX is performed with the H1 experiment at HERA. Final states with a muon or tau and a hadronic jet are searched for in a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 66.5 pb-1 for e+p collisions and 13.7 pb-1 for e-p collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 319 GeV. No evidence for lepton flavour violation is found. Limits are derived on the mass and the couplings of leptoquarks inducing lepton flavour violation in an extension of the Buchmüller-Rückl-Wyler effective model. Leptoquarks produced in ep collisions with a coupling strength of λ=0.3 and decaying with the same coupling strength to a muon-quark pair or a tau-quark pair are excluded at 95% confidence level up to masses of 459 GeV and 379 GeV, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)833-847
Number of pages15
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume52
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2007

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