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

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-pro...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Onofre, A. (author)
Outros Autores: Castro, Nuno Filipe Silva Fernandes (author), ATLAS Collaboration (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2015
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/39948
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/39948
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Resumo: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 \( \sqrt{s}=8 \) 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%).