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A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV

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A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 830, 137106, 10.07.2022.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2022, 'A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 830, 137106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137106

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The ATLAS collaboration (2022). A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 830, Article 137106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137106

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The ATLAS collaboration. A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2022 Jul 10;830:137106. Epub 2022 May 25. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137106

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The ATLAS collaboration. / A search for an unexpected asymmetry in the production of e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs in proton–proton collisions recorded by the ATLAS detector at s=13 TeV. In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics. 2022 ; Vol. 830.

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abstract = "This search, a type not previously performed at ATLAS, uses a comparison of the production cross sections for e+μ− and e−μ+ pairs to constrain physics processes beyond the Standard Model. It uses 139fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded at s=13 TeV at the LHC. Targeting sources of new physics which prefer final states containing e+μ− to e−μ+, the search contains two broad signal regions which are used to provide model-independent constraints on the ratio of cross sections at the 2% level. The search also has two special selections targeting supersymmetric models and leptoquark signatures. Observations using one of these selections are able to exclude, at 95% confidence level, singly produced smuons with masses up to 640 GeV in a model in which the only other light sparticle is a neutralino when the R-parity-violating coupling λ231′ is close to unity. Observations using the other selection exclude scalar leptoquarks with masses below 1880 GeV when g1Reu=g1Rμc=1, at 95% confidence level. The limit on the coupling reduces to g1Reu=g1Rμc=0.46 for a mass of 1420 GeV. {\textcopyright} 2022 The Author(s)",
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AU - Borissov, G.

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.

AU - Fox, H.

AU - Henderson, R.C.W.

AU - Jones, R.W.L.

AU - Kartvelishvili, V.

AU - Love, P.A.

AU - Muenstermann, D.

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