A search for excited leptons in $pp$ Collisions at $s=$ 7 TeV
A search for excited leptons in $pp$ Collisions at $s=$ 7 TeV
A search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36pb−1 of pp collision data recorded at
s=7TeV. The search is performed for associated production of a lepton and an oppositely charged excited lepton ⁎pp→ℓℓ⁎, followed by the decay ⁎ℓ⁎→ℓγ
, resulting in the ℓℓγ final state, where ℓ=e,μ. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Interpreting the findings in the context of ⁎ℓ⁎ production through four-fermion contact interactions and subsequent decay via electroweak processes, first upper limits are reported for ⁎ℓ⁎
production at this collision energy. The exclusion region in the compositeness scale Λ and excited lepton mass ⁎Mℓ⁎ parameter space is extended beyond previously established limits. For ⁎Λ=Mℓ⁎, excited lepton masses are excluded below 1070GeV/c2 for ⁎e⁎ and 1090GeV/c2 for ⁎μ⁎ at the 95% confidence level.
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Chatrchyan, Serguei
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Belyaev, Alexander
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2011
Chatrchyan, Serguei
23ce6af5-bdd2-435c-92c8-9b1b71a261ee
Belyaev, Alexander
6bdb9638-5ff9-4b65-a8f2-34bae3ac34b3
Abstract
A search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36pb−1 of pp collision data recorded at
s=7TeV. The search is performed for associated production of a lepton and an oppositely charged excited lepton ⁎pp→ℓℓ⁎, followed by the decay ⁎ℓ⁎→ℓγ
, resulting in the ℓℓγ final state, where ℓ=e,μ. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Interpreting the findings in the context of ⁎ℓ⁎ production through four-fermion contact interactions and subsequent decay via electroweak processes, first upper limits are reported for ⁎ℓ⁎
production at this collision energy. The exclusion region in the compositeness scale Λ and excited lepton mass ⁎Mℓ⁎ parameter space is extended beyond previously established limits. For ⁎Λ=Mℓ⁎, excited lepton masses are excluded below 1070GeV/c2 for ⁎e⁎ and 1090GeV/c2 for ⁎μ⁎ at the 95% confidence level.
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Published date: 2011
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