Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z → eμ in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072010

Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z → eμ in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

Aix Marseille Université
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Department of Physics
Oklahoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
Department of Physics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Department of Physics
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine
INFN Sezione di Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Yale University
Fakultät für Physik
Universität München
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
Lisboa
Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
University of Granada
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
University of Bern
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Lund University
Department of Physics
University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INFN Sezione di Bologna
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
University of Bologna
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Victoria
LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
Instituto de Física La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Section de Physique
University of Geneva
Physics Department
National Technical University of Athens
Dipartimento di Chimica
and Physics University of Udine
Sezione INFN di Milano
University of Chicago
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Lancaster University
Oliver Lodge Laboratory
University of Liverpool
INFN Sezione di Napoli
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Naples Federico II
Universités Paris VI and VII
University of Cambridge
Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for the lepton flavor violating process Z → eμ in pp collisions using 20.3 fb^-1 of data collected at √s = 8 TeV. An enhancement in the eμ invariant mass spectrum is searched for at the Z-boson mass. The number of Z bosons produced in the data sample is estimated using events of similar topology, Z → ee and μμ, significantly reducing the systematic uncertainty in the measurement. There is no evidence of an enhancement at the Z-boson mass, resulting in an upper limit on the branching fraction, B(Z → 7.5 × 10.7 at the 95% confidence level.

Original language	English
Article number	072010
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	90
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072010
Publication status	Published - 23 Oct 2014
Externally published	Yes

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Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z → eμ in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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