Franconi, Laura; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Anders, John Kenneth; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio (2019). Search for excited electrons singly produced in proton--proton collisions at \sqrts=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 79(9) Springer 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1
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A search for excited electrons produced in pp collisions at s√ = 13 TeV via a contact interaction qq¯→ee∗ is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb−1 of data collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Decays of the excited electron into an electron and a pair of quarks (eqq¯) are targeted in final states with two electrons and two hadronic jets, and decays via a gauge interaction into a neutrino and a W boson (νW) are probed in final states with an electron, missing transverse momentum, and a large-radius jet consistent with a hadronically decaying W boson. No significant excess is observed over the expected backgrounds. Upper limits are calculated for the pp→ee∗→eeqq¯ and pp→ee∗→eνW production cross sections as a function of the excited electron mass me∗ at 95% confidence level. The limits are translated into lower bounds on the compositeness scale parameter Λ of the model as a function of me∗. For me∗<0.5 TeV, the lower bound for Λ is 11 TeV. In the special case of me∗=Λ, the values of me∗<4.8 TeV are excluded. The presented limits on Λ are more stringent than those obtained in previous searches.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Franconi, Laura, Miucci, Antonio, Merlassino, Claudia, Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Anders, John Kenneth, Beck, Hans Peter, Ereditato, Antonio |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
1434-6044 |
Publisher: |
Springer |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
BORIS Import LHEP |
Date Deposited: |
12 Jun 2020 13:50 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner AutorInnen namentlich erwaehnt; The ATLAS collaboration |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.143573 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143573 |
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