Search for lepton-flavour-violating $H\to\mu\tau$ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad 1 Z. Barnovska 2 N. Berger 2 M. Delmastro 2 L. Di Ciaccio 2 S. Elles 2 T. Hryn’ova 2 S. Jézéquel 2 I. Koletsou 2 R. Lafaye 2 J. Leveque 2 N. Massol 2 G. Sauvage 2 E. Sauvan 2 O. Simard 2 T. Todorov 2 I. Wingerter-Seez 2 E. Yatsenko 2 G . Rahal 3 L. Alio 1 M. Barbero 1 Y. Coadou 1 C. Diaconu 1 S. Diglio 1 F. Djama 1 O. Duccu 1 L. Feligioni 1 J. Gao 1 G.D. Hallewell 1 F. Hubaut 1 S.J. Kahn 1 E. B. F. G. Knoops 1 E. Le Guirriec 1 J. Liu 1 K. Liu 1 D. Madaffari 1 K. Mochizuki 1 E. Monnier 1 S. Muanza 1 Y. Nagai 1 E. Nagy 1 P. Pralavorio 1 A. Rozanov 1 T. Serre 1 M. Talby 1 R.E. Ticse Torres 1 E. Tiouchichine 1 S. Tisserant 1 J. Toth 1 F. Touchard 1 L. Vacavant 1 S. Albrand 4 J. Brown 4 J. Collot 4 S. Crépé-Renaudin 4 P.A. Delsart 4 C. Gabaldon 4 M.H. Genest 4 J.Y. Hostachy 4 F. Ledroit-Guillon 4 A. Lleres 4 A. Lucotte 4 F. Malek 4 C. Monini 4 J. Stark 4 B. Trocmé 4 M. Wu 4 D. Boumediene 5 Emmanuel Busato 5 D. Calvet 5 S. Calvet 5 J. Donini 5 E. Dubreuil 5 G. Gilles 5 Ph. Gris 5 H. Liao 5 R. Madar 5 D. Pallin 5 S.M. Romano Saez 5 C. Santoni 5 D. Simon 5 Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer 5 F. Vazeille 5
1 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
2 LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
3 CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3
4 LPSC - Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie
5 LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract : A direct search for lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) $H\to\mu\tau$ decays of the recently discovered Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis is performed in the $H\to\mu\tau_{\mathrm{had}}$ channel, where $\tau_{\mathrm{had}}$ is a hadronically decaying $\tau$-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($H\to\mu\tau$), is 1.85% (1.24%).
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G. Aad, Z. Barnovska, N. Berger, M. Delmastro, L. Di Ciaccio, et al.. Search for lepton-flavour-violating $H\to\mu\tau$ decays of the Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Verlag (Germany), 2015, 11, pp.211. ⟨10.1007/JHEP11(2015)211⟩. ⟨in2p3-01185529⟩

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