par Chatrchyan, Serguei;Clerbaux, Barbara 
;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Gay, Arnaud ;Hreus, Tomas ;Marage, Pierre ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Charaf, Othman ;Dero, Vincent ;Hammad, Grégory ; [et al.]
Référence Physics letters. Section B, 704, 3, page (143-162)
Publication Publié, 2011
;De Lentdecker, Gilles ;Gay, Arnaud ;Hreus, Tomas ;Marage, Pierre ;Thomas, Laurent ;Vander Velde, Catherine ;Vanlaer, Pascal ;Charaf, Othman ;Dero, Vincent ;Hammad, Grégory ; [et al.]Référence Physics letters. Section B, 704, 3, page (143-162)
Publication Publié, 2011
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | 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 s=7 TeV. 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. |
