Search for lepton flavour violation in the eμ continuum with the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text] pp collisions at the LHC
Affiliations
- 1 Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
- 2 Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK United States of America.
- 3 Institut de Física d'Altes Energies and Departament de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
- 4 Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 5 Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 6 Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 7 Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK United States of America.
- 8 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI United States of America.
- 9 Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- 10 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France.
- 11 INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy.
- 12 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy.
- 13 INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Udine, Italy.
- 14 ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- 15 Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY United States of America.
- 16 Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA United States of America.
- 17 Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT United States of America.
- 18 Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
- 19 School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
- 20 Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 21 Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA United States of America.
- 22 Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
- 23 Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- 24 Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA United States of America.
- 25 Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY United States of America.
- 26 Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX United States of America.
- 27 INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
- 28 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
- 29 Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 30 Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden.
- 31 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- 32 P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- 33 Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
- 34 University at Albany, Albany, NY United States of America.
- 35 Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom.
- 36 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Joseph Fourier and CNRS/IN2P3 and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
- 37 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 38 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, Dubna, Russia.
- 39 National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
- 40 Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece.
- 41 Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
- 42 Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
- 43 Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA United States of America.
- 44 Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- 45 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- 46 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- 47 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 48 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 49 Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 50 KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 51 State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
- 52 Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas - LIP, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 53 Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) and Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear and Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica and Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM), University of Valencia and CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
- 54 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- 55 Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY United States of America.
- 56 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL United States of America.
- 57 Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 58 Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
- 59 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 60 Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 61 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 62 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 63 Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia.
- 64 Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
- 65 INFN Sezione di Roma I, Roma, Italy.
- 66 CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
- 67 LAPP, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France.
- 68 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA United States of America.
- 69 Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC United States of America.
- 70 Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Canada.
- 71 Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA United States of America.
- 72 Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI United States of America.
- 73 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
- 74 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
- 75 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI United States of America.
- 76 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- 77 Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 78 The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 79 High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL United States of America.
- 80 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada.
- 81 II Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
- 82 Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
- 83 Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 84 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America.
- 85 Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 86 Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
- 88 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
- 89 DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 90 Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada.
- 91 Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- 92 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 93 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
- 94 The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- 95 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA United States of America.
- 96 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 97 School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 98 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 99 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 100 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München, Germany.
- 101 Fachbereich C Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
- 102 Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-15, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 103 Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA United States of America.
- 104 Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
- 105 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
- 106 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
- 107 Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 108 Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, UPMC and Université Paris-Diderot and CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
- 109 DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany.
- 110 Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
- 111 Department of Physics, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 112 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA United States of America.
- 113 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 114 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 115 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 116 Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies - Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
- 117 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL United States of America.
- 118 Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK Canada.
- 119 Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 120 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 121 Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 122 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- 123 INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
- 124 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
- 125 Domaine scientifique de la Doua, Centre de Calcul CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
- 126 II Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
- 127 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
- 128 B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
- 129 Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 130 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA United States of America.
- 131 Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 132 Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX United States of America.
- 133 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 134 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA United States of America.
- 135 Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR United States of America.
- 136 Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
- 137 Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN United States of America.
- 138 Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 139 Fachbereich Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
- 140 Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY United States of America.
- 141 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- 142 Institut für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
- 143 Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Université and Université Blaise Pascal and CNRS/IN2P3, Aubiere Cedex, France.
- 144 Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
- 145 Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL United States of America.
- 146 Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro COPPE/EE/IF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- 147 TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 148 INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Arcavata di Rende, Italy.
- 149 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Arcavata di Rende, Italy.
- 150 Division of Physics, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 151 Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 152 Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
- 153 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA United States of America.
- 154 Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.
- 155 Faculté des sciences, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
- 156 Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ United States of America.
- 157 E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 158 Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
- 159 Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic.
- 160 AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, Krakow, Poland.
- 161 Department of Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- 162 Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy.
- 163 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 164 Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA United States of America.
- 165 University Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania.
- 166 Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
- 167 Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada.
- 168 Physics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX United States of America.
- 169 Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco.
- 170 Departamento de Fisica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- 171 High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 172 Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 173 Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 174 Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia.
- 175 School of Physics, Shandong University, Shandong, China.
- 176 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH United States of America.
- 177 Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany.
- 178 Centre National de l'Energie des Sciences Techniques Nucleaires, Rabat, Morocco.
- 179 Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 180 Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
- 181 Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 182 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM United States of America.
- 183 Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
- 184 Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 185 Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt, Johannes Gutenbergstrasse 3, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
- 186 Palacký University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
- 187 Science and Technology Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA United States of America.
- 188 Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China.
- 189 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
- 190 Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571 Japan.
- 191 Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan.
- 192 Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.
- 193 Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 194 Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- 195 Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 196 ZITI Institut für technische Informatik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.
- 197 National Scientific and Educational Centre for Particle and High Energy Physics, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
- 198 School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 199 School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 200 Centro de Investigaciones, Universidad Antonio Narino, Bogota, Colombia.
- 201 Faculty of Applied Information Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 202 Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
- 203 Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 204 Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
- 205 Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan.
- 206 Division of Physics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey.
- 207 Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan.
- 208 Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan.
- 209 Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA United States of America.
- 210 Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 211 Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara, Turkey.
- 212 Department of Physics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
- PMID: 25814838
- PMCID: PMC4370899
- DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2040-z
Search for lepton flavour violation in the eμ continuum with the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text] pp collisions at the LHC
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany.
- 2 Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK United States of America.
- 3 Institut de Física d'Altes Energies and Departament de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
- 4 Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 5 Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
- 6 Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 7 Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK United States of America.
- 8 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI United States of America.
- 9 Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- 10 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France.
- 11 INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy.
- 12 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milano, Italy.
- 13 INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Udine, Italy.
- 14 ICTP, Trieste, Italy.
- 15 Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY United States of America.
- 16 Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA United States of America.
- 17 Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT United States of America.
- 18 Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
- 19 School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
- 20 Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom.
- 21 Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA United States of America.
- 22 Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain.
- 23 Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
- 24 Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA United States of America.
- 25 Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY United States of America.
- 26 Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX United States of America.
- 27 INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
- 28 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy.
- 29 Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
- 30 Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden.
- 31 International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- 32 P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
- 33 Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
- 34 University at Albany, Albany, NY United States of America.
- 35 Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, United Kingdom.
- 36 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Joseph Fourier and CNRS/IN2P3 and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
- 37 CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 38 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, Dubna, Russia.
- 39 National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania.
- 40 Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece.
- 41 Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
- 42 Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
- 43 Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA United States of America.
- 44 Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
- 45 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
- 46 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
- 47 INFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 48 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
- 49 Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
- 50 KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 51 State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
- 52 Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas - LIP, Lisboa, Portugal.
- 53 Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) and Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear and Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica and Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM), University of Valencia and CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
- 54 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- 55 Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY United States of America.
- 56 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL United States of America.
- 57 Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 58 Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina.
- 59 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.
- 60 Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
- 61 INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 62 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- 63 Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia.
- 64 Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
- 65 INFN Sezione di Roma I, Roma, Italy.
- 66 CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
- 67 LAPP, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France.
- 68 SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA United States of America.
- 69 Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC United States of America.
- 70 Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON Canada.
- 71 Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA United States of America.
- 72 Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI United States of America.
- 73 Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia.
- 74 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy.
- 75 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI United States of America.
- 76 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
- 77 Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 78 The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden.
- 79 High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL United States of America.
- 80 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada.
- 81 II Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
- 82 Czech Technical University in Prague, Praha, Czech Republic.
- 83 Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 84 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA United States of America.
- 85 Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada.
- 86 Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada.
- 87 INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
- 88 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy.
- 89 DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique), Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
- 90 Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada.
- 91 Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- 92 Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
- 93 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
- 94 The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- 95 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA United States of America.
- 96 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
- 97 School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 98 INFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 99 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy.
- 100 Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), München, Germany.
- 101 Fachbereich C Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany.
- 102 Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-15, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
- 103 Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA United States of America.
- 104 Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.
- 105 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
- 106 Faculty of Mathematics, Physics & Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
- 107 Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 108 Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, UPMC and Université Paris-Diderot and CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
- 109 DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany.
- 110 Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
- 111 Department of Physics, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- 112 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA United States of America.
- 113 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
- 114 INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- 115 Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia.
- 116 Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies - Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco.
- 117 Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL United States of America.
- 118 Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK Canada.
- 119 Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 120 INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 121 Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
- 122 SUPA - School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- 123 INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy.
- 124 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
- 125 Domaine scientifique de la Doua, Centre de Calcul CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
- 126 II Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
- 127 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark.
- 128 B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus.
- 129 Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 130 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA United States of America.
- 131 Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
- 132 Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX United States of America.
- 133 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 134 Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA United States of America.
- 135 Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR United States of America.
- 136 Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.
- 137 Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN United States of America.
- 138 Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
- 139 Fachbereich Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany.
- 140 Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY United States of America.
- 141 Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- 142 Institut für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.
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- PMID: 25814838
- PMCID: PMC4370899
- DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2040-z
Abstract
This paper presents a search for the t-channel exchange of an R-parity violating scalar top quark ([Formula: see text]) in the e±μ∓ continuum using 2.1 fb-1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text]pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Data are found to be consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model backgrounds. Limits on R-parity-violating couplings at 95 % C.L. are calculated as a function of the scalar top mass ([Formula: see text]). The upper limits on the production cross section for pp→eμX, through the t-channel exchange of a scalar top quark, ranges from 170 fb for [Formula: see text] to 30 fb for [Formula: see text].
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The Feynman diagram for production…
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The Feynman diagram for production through the t -channel exchange of a scalar…

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Observed distributions of dilepton invariant…
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Observed distributions of dilepton invariant mass ( m eμ ), dilepton azimuthal…

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The observed m eμ …
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The observed m eμ distribution after applying all selection criteria. The expected…

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( a ) The observed…
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( a ) The observed 95 % CL upper limits on σ ( …
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