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Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector

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Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, Vol. 76, No. 5, 232, 05.2016.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2016, 'Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector', European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, vol. 76, no. 5, 232. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4041-9

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The ATLAS collaboration (2016). Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76(5), Article 232. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4041-9

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The ATLAS collaboration. Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 May;76(5):232. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4041-9

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector. In: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields. 2016 ; Vol. 76, No. 5.

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title = "Probing lepton flavour violation via neutrinoless τ⟶3μ decays with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "This article presents the sensitivity of the ATLAS experiment to the lepton-flavour-violating decays of τ→3μ. A method utilising the production of τ leptons via W→τν decays is used. This method is applied to the sample of 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. No event is observed passing the selection criteria, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the τ lepton branching fraction into three muons, Br(τ→3μ), is 3.76×10−7 (3.94×10−7) at 90 % confidence level.",
author = "Barton, {Adam Edward} and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Bouhova-Thacker, {Evelina Vassileva} and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Grimm, {Kathryn Ann Tschann} and Henderson, {Robert Charles William} and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Long, {Robin Eamonn} and Love, {Peter Allan} and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Walder, {James William} and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann

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AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin Eamonn

AU - Love, Peter Allan

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AB - This article presents the sensitivity of the ATLAS experiment to the lepton-flavour-violating decays of τ→3μ. A method utilising the production of τ leptons via W→τν decays is used. This method is applied to the sample of 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in 2012. No event is observed passing the selection criteria, and the observed (expected) upper limit on the τ lepton branching fraction into three muons, Br(τ→3μ), is 3.76×10−7 (3.94×10−7) at 90 % confidence level.

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