Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2015) Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in pp collisions at √s = 8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 92 (3): 032001. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

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.

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Physical Review D
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14 Sep 2015 09:13
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