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

Agustoni, Marco; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Haug, Sigve; Kruker, Tobias; Marti, Lukas; Meloni, Federico; Schneider, Basil; Sciacca, Gianfranco; Stramaglia, Maria; Stucci, Stefania Antonia; Weber, Michael (2014). Search for the lepton flavor violating decay Z→eμ in pp collisions at √s =8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical review. D - particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, D90(7), 072010. Melville, N.Y.: American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072010

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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→eμ)<7.5×10 −7 at the 95% confidence level.

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