Search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A direct search for lepton-flavour-violating H → μτ decays of the recently discovered Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed in the H → μτhad channel, where τhad is a hadronically decaying τ -lepton. The search is based on the data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS experiment corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy of TeV. No statistically significant excess of data over the predicted background is observed. The observed (expected) 95% confidence-level upper limit on the branching fraction, Br(H → μτ ), is 1.85% (1.24%).[Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number211
Pages (from-to)1-33
Number of pages33
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2015
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2015

Keywords

  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron Scattering
  • Higgs physics
  • Lepton production

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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