Naslov
Search for an excited lepton that decays via a contact interaction to a lepton and two jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV

Autori
Sirunyan, Albert M ; ... ; Antunović, Željko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Ceci, Saša ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Giljanović, Duje ; Godinović, Nikola ; Kadija, Krešo ; Kovač, Marko ; Lelas, Damir ; Luetić, Jelena ; Majumder, Devdatta ; Mesić, Benjamin ; Puljak, Ivica ; Roguljić, Matej ; Starodumov, Andrey ; Đurić, Senka ; Šuša, Tatjana ; Šćulac, Toni ; ... ; Woods, Nathaniel

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
The Journal of high energy physics (1126-6708) 05 (2020); 052, 20

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Ključne riječi
High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Particle Physics Experiments ; Physics ; Vector boson scattering ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Supersymmetry ; Higgs physics ; Particle and resonance production ; B physics ; Particle correlations and fluctuations ; Quarkonium ; Elementary Particles and Fields ; Beyond Standard Model ; Jets ; QCD ; Top physics ; Diboson ; Electroweak ; CKM matrix ; Top quark ; Large detector-systems performance ; Pattern recognition

Sažetak
Results are presented from a search for events containing an excited lepton (electron or muon) produced in association with an ordinary lepton of the same flavor and decaying to a lepton and two hadronic jets. Both the production and the decay of the excited leptons are assumed to occur via a contact interaction with a characteristic energy scale $\Lambda$. The branching fraction for the decay mode under study increases with the mass of the excited lepton and is the most sensitive channel for very heavy excited leptons. The analysis uses a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at √s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 77.4 fb(-1). The four-body invariant mass of the two lepton plus two jet system is used as the primary discriminating variable. No significant excess of events beyond the expectation for standard model processes is observed. Assuming that Λ is equal to the mass of the excited leptons, excited electrons and muons with masses below 5.6 and 5.7 TeV, respectively, are excluded at 95% confidence level. These are the best limits to date.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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