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Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8  TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Article number032001
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/08/2015
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical Review D
Issue number3
Volume92
Number of pages20
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A search for the pair production of heavy leptons (N 0 ,L ± ) predicted by the type-III seesaw theory formulated to explain the origin of small neutrino masses is presented. The decay channels N 0 →W ± l ∓ (ℓ=e,μ,τ ) and L ± →W ± ν (ν=ν e ,ν μ ,ν τ ) are considered. The analysis is performed using the final state that contains two leptons (electrons or muons), two jets from a hadronically decaying W boson and large missing transverse momentum. The data used in the measurement correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3  fb −1 of pp collisions at s √ =8  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No evidence of heavy lepton pair production is observed. Heavy leptons with masses below 325–540 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, depending on the theoretical scenario considered.

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