Publication
Title
A search for excited leptons in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
 A search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36 pb−1 of pp collision data recorded at View the MathML source. 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 1070 GeV/c2 for e⁎ and 1090 GeV/c2 for μ⁎ at the 95% confidence level.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physics letters : B. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
Physics letters : B. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens
Publication
Amsterdam : North-Holland , 2011
ISSN
0370-2693
Volume/pages
704 :3 (2011) , p. 143-162
ISI
000296305800007
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