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Search for excited electrons and muons in sqrt(s)=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad , S. Albrand (1) , J. Brown (1) , Q. Buat (1) , B. Clement (1) , J. Collot (1) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (1) , B. Dechenaux (1) , T. Delemontex (1) , P.A. Delsart (1) , M.H. Genest (1) , J.Y. Hostachy (1) , E. Laisne (1) , B.T. Le (1) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (1) , A. Lleres (1) , A. Lucotte (1) , F. Malek (1) , C. Monini (1) , J. Stark (1) , X. Sun (1) , B. Trocmé (1) , G. Rahal (2) , S. Abdel Khalek (3) , E. Augé (3) , S. Binet (3) , C. Bourdarios (3) , C. de La Taille (3) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (3) , L. Duflot (3) , M. Escalier (3) , L. Fayard (3) , D. Fournier (3) , J.-F. Grivaz (3) , T. Guillemin (3) , S. Henrot-Versillé (3) , J. Hrivnac (3) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (3) , J. Idarraga (3) , M. Kado (3) , N. Lorenzo Martinez (3) , A. Lounis (3) , N. Makovec (3) , F. Niedercorn (3) , L. Poggioli (3) , P. Puzo (3) , A. Renaud (3) , D. Rousseau (3) , G. Rybkin (3) , J.B. Sauvan (3) , J. Schaarschmidt (3) , A.C. Schaffer (3) , E. Scifo (3) , L. Serin (3) , S. Simion (3) , R. Tanaka (3) , M. Teinturier (3) , H.L. Tran (3) , D. Zerwas (3) , Zhiqing Zhang (3) , L. Alio (4) , M. Barbero (4) , C. P. Bee (4) , C. Bertella (4) , N. Bousson (4) , J. C. Clémens (4) , Y. Coadou (4) , F. Djama (4) , F. Etienne (4) , L. Feligioni (4) , D. Hoffmann (4) , F. Hubaut (4) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (4) , E. Le Guirriec (4) , B. Li (4) , J. Maurer (4) , E. Monnier (4) , Y. Nagai (4) , J. Odier (4) , P. Pralavorio (4) , A. Rozanov (4) , T. Serre (4) , M. Talby (4) , N. Tannoury (4) , E. Tiouchichine (4) , S. Tisserant (4) , J. Toth (4) , F. Touchard (4) , M. Ughetto (4) , L. Vacavant (4) , N. Berger (5) , J. Colas (5) , M. Delmastro (5) , L. Di Ciaccio (5) , T.K.O. Doan (5) , S. Elles (5) , C. Goy (5) , T. Hryn'Ova (5) , S. Jézéquel (5) , H. Keoshkerian (5) , R. Lafaye (5) , J. Leveque (5) , V.P. Lombardo (5) , M. Maeno (5) , N. Massol (5) , P. Perrodo (5) , E. Petit (5) , H. Przysiezniak (5) , G. Sauvage (5) , E. Sauvan (5) , M. Schwoerer (5) , T. Todorov (5) , I. Wingerter-Seez (5) , R. Zitoun (5) , D. Boumediene (6) , Emmanuel Busato (6) , D. Calvet (6) , S. Calvet (6) , J. Donini (6) , E. Dubreuil (6) , N. Ghodbane (6) , Ph. Gris (6) , C. Guicheney (6) , H. Liao (6) , D. Pallin (6) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (6) , F. Podlyski (6) , C. Santoni (6) , Timothée Theveneaux-Pelzer (6) , Loïc Valery (6) , F. Vazeille (6)
G. Aad
E. Augé
D. Rousseau
Zhiqing Zhang
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Y. Coadou
N. Berger
C. Goy
T. Hryn'Ova
S. Calvet

Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the LHC is used to search for excited electrons and excited muons in the channel pp -> ll* -> llgamma, assuming that excited leptons are produced via contact interactions. The analysis is based on 13 fb-1 of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No evidence for excited leptons is found, and a limit is set at the 95% credibility level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-lepton mass m_l*. For m_l* > 0.8 TeV, the respective upper limits on sigma*B(l* -> lgamma) are 0.75 fb and 0.90 fb for the e* and mu* searches. Limits on sigma*B are converted into lower bounds on the compositeness scale Lambda. In the special case where Lambda = m_l*, excited-electron and excited-muon masses below 2.2 TeV are excluded.

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in2p3-00850508 , version 1 (07-08-2013)

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G. Aad, S. Albrand, J. Brown, Q. Buat, B. Clement, et al.. Search for excited electrons and muons in sqrt(s)=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector. New Journal of Physics, 2013, 15, pp.093011. ⟨10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011⟩. ⟨in2p3-00850508⟩
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