Search for excited leptons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Chatrchyan, S. and Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Aguilo, E. and Bergauer, T. and Dragicevic, M. and Ero, J. and Fabjan, C. and Friedl, M. and Fruhwirth, R. and Ghete, V. M. and Hammer, J. and Hormann, N. and Hrubec, J. and Jeitler, M. and Kiesenhofer, W. and Knunz, V. and Krammer, M. and Kratschmer, I. and Liko, D. and Mikulec, I. and Pernicka, M. and Rahbaran, B. and Rohringer, C. and Rohringer, H. and Schofbeck, R. and Strauss, J. and Taurok, A. and Bencze, György and Hajdu, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Molnár, József and Pálinkás, József and Karancsi, János and Raics, Péter and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor and Krajczár, Krisztián (2013) Search for excited leptons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 720 (4-5). pp. 309-329. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

Results are presented of a search for compositeness in electrons and muons using a data sample of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy √s = 7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. Excited leptons (`∗) are assumed to be produced via contact interactions in conjunc- tion with a standard model lepton and to decay via `∗ → `γ, yielding a final state with two energetic leptons and a photon. The number of events observed in data is consistent with that expected from the standard model. The 95% confidence upper limits for the cross section for the production and decay of excited electrons (muons), with masses ranging from 0.6 to 2 TeV, are 1.48 to 1.24 fb (1.31 to 1.11 fb). Excited leptons with masses below 1.9 TeV are excluded for the case where the contact inter- action scale equals the excited lepton mass. The limits on the cross sections are the most stringent ones published to date.

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