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In: Nature Physics, Vol. 17, No. 7, 01.07.2021, p. 819-825.

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ATLAS Collaboration. Search for charged-lepton-flavour violation in Z-boson decays with the ATLAS detector. Nature Physics. 2021 Jul 1;17(7):819-825. doi: 10.1038/s41567-021-01225-z

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title = "Search for charged-lepton-flavour violation in Z-boson decays with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "Leptons with essentially the same properties apart from their mass are grouped into three families (or flavours). The number of leptons of each flavour is conserved in interactions, but this is not imposed by fundamental principles. Since the formulation of the standard model of particle physics, the observation of flavour oscillations among neutrinos has shown that lepton flavour is not conserved in neutrino weak interactions. So far, there has been no experimental evidence that this also occurs in interactions between charged leptons. Such an observation would be a sign of undiscovered particles or a yet unknown type of interaction. Here the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN reports a constraint on lepton-flavour-violating effects in weak interactions, searching for Z-boson decays into a τ lepton and another lepton of different flavour with opposite electric charge. The branching fractions for these decays are measured to be less than 8.1 × 10−6 (eτ) and 9.5 × 10−6 (μτ) at the 95% confidence level using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at s=8TeV. These results supersede the limits from the Large Electron–Positron Collider experiments conducted more than two decades ago. ",
keywords = "Branching fractions, Centre-of-mass energies, Experimental evidence, Fundamental principles, Large Hadron Collider, Proton collisions, The standard model, Weak interactions, Bosons",
author = "{ATLAS Collaboration} and A.E. Barton and I.A. Bertram and G. Borissov and E.V. Bouhova-Thacker and H. Fox and R.C.W. Henderson and R.W.L. Jones and V. Kartvelishvili and R.E. Long and P.A. Love and D. Muenstermann and Izaac Sanderswood and M. Smizanska and A.S. Tee and A.M. Wharton and B.W. Whitmore and Melissa Yexley",
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AU - ATLAS Collaboration

AU - Barton, A.E.

AU - Bertram, I.A.

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 - Long, R.E.

AU - Love, P.A.

AU - Muenstermann, D.

AU - Sanderswood, Izaac

AU - Smizanska, M.

AU - Tee, A.S.

AU - Wharton, A.M.

AU - Whitmore, B.W.

AU - Yexley, Melissa

PY - 2021/7/1

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N2 - Leptons with essentially the same properties apart from their mass are grouped into three families (or flavours). The number of leptons of each flavour is conserved in interactions, but this is not imposed by fundamental principles. Since the formulation of the standard model of particle physics, the observation of flavour oscillations among neutrinos has shown that lepton flavour is not conserved in neutrino weak interactions. So far, there has been no experimental evidence that this also occurs in interactions between charged leptons. Such an observation would be a sign of undiscovered particles or a yet unknown type of interaction. Here the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN reports a constraint on lepton-flavour-violating effects in weak interactions, searching for Z-boson decays into a τ lepton and another lepton of different flavour with opposite electric charge. The branching fractions for these decays are measured to be less than 8.1 × 10−6 (eτ) and 9.5 × 10−6 (μτ) at the 95% confidence level using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at s=8TeV. These results supersede the limits from the Large Electron–Positron Collider experiments conducted more than two decades ago.

AB - Leptons with essentially the same properties apart from their mass are grouped into three families (or flavours). The number of leptons of each flavour is conserved in interactions, but this is not imposed by fundamental principles. Since the formulation of the standard model of particle physics, the observation of flavour oscillations among neutrinos has shown that lepton flavour is not conserved in neutrino weak interactions. So far, there has been no experimental evidence that this also occurs in interactions between charged leptons. Such an observation would be a sign of undiscovered particles or a yet unknown type of interaction. Here the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN reports a constraint on lepton-flavour-violating effects in weak interactions, searching for Z-boson decays into a τ lepton and another lepton of different flavour with opposite electric charge. The branching fractions for these decays are measured to be less than 8.1 × 10−6 (eτ) and 9.5 × 10−6 (μτ) at the 95% confidence level using 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV and 20.3 fb−1 at s=8TeV. These results supersede the limits from the Large Electron–Positron Collider experiments conducted more than two decades ago.

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KW - Centre-of-mass energies

KW - Experimental evidence

KW - Fundamental principles

KW - Large Hadron Collider

KW - Proton collisions

KW - The standard model

KW - Weak interactions

KW - Bosons

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SP - 819

EP - 825

JO - Nature Physics

JF - Nature Physics

SN - 1745-2473

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