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T1 - Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Beattie, Michael
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Grimm, Kathryn
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Maddocks, Harvey
AU - Skinner, Malcolm
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James
AU - Wharton, Andy
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
N1 - This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.032001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 3
M1 - 032001
ER -