Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons

Abstract

A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195GeV/c2 decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2fb-1. The tau leptons are reconstructed in both leptonic and hadronic decay channels. An upper limit on the production cross-section multiplied by the branching fraction at 95% confidence level is set and ranges from 22pb for a boson mass of 45GeV/c2 to 4pb for a mass of 195GeV/c2.

Original language	English
Article number	1008
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	78
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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LHCb Collaboration, & Wagner, A. R. (2018). Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons. European Physical Journal C, 78(12), [1008]. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-8

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