A search for excited leptons in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
Contribuinte(s) |
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) |
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Data(s) |
30/09/2013
20/05/2014
30/09/2013
20/05/2014
13/10/2011
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Resumo |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) A search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36 pb(-1) of pp collision data recorded at root s = 7 TeV. The search is performed for associated production of a lepton and an oppositely charged excited lepton pp -> ll*, followed by the decay l* -> l gamma, resulting in the eey final state, where l = e, mu. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Interpreting the findings in the context of l* production through four-fermion contact interactions and subsequent decay via electroweak processes, first upper limits are reported for l* production at this collision energy. The exclusion region in the compositeness scale A and excited lepton mass M-l* parameter space is extended beyond previously established limits. For Lambda = M-l*, excited lepton masses are excluded below 1070 GeV/c(2) for e* and 1090 GeV/c(2) for mu* at the 95% confidence level. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
Formato |
143-162 |
Identificador |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.09.021 Physics Letters B. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 704, n. 3, p. 143-162, 2011. 0370-2693 http://hdl.handle.net/11449/24228 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.09.021 WOS:000296305800007 WOS:000317151500003 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Elsevier B.V. |
Relação |
Physics Letters B |
Direitos |
closedAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #CMS #Physics |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article |