@Article{ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2012,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
and Amoros, G.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Costa, M. J.
and Ferrer, A.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Irles Quiles, A.
and Kaci, M.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lacuesta, V. R.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Mi{\~A}{\textpm}ano, M.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Moles-Valls, R.
and Moreno Llacer, M.
and Oliver Garcia, E.
and Perez Garcia-Esta{\~A}{\textpm}, M. T.
and Romero Adam, E.
and Ros, E.
and Salt, J.
and Solans, C. A.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Torro Pastor, E.
and Valladolid Gallego, E.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Villaplana Perez, M.
and Vos, M.
and Wildauer, A.",
title="Search for anomalous production of prompt like-sign muon pairs and constraints on physics beyond the standard model with the ATLAS detector",
journal="Physical Review D",
year="2012",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="85",
number="3",
pages="032004--23pp",
abstract="An inclusive search for anomalous production of two prompt, isolated muons with the same electric charge is presented. The search is performed in a data sample corresponding to 1.6 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected in 2011 at root s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Muon pairs are selected by requiring two isolated muons of the same electric charge with p(T) > 20 GeV and vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.5. Minimal requirements are placed on the rest of the event activity. The distribution of the invariant mass of the muon pair m(mu mu) is found to agree well with the background expectation. Upper limits on the cross section for anomalous production of two muons with the same electric charge are placed as a function of m(mu mu) within a fiducial region defined by the event selection. The fiducial cross-section limit constrains the like-sign top-quark pair-production cross section to be below 3.7 pb at 95{\%} confidence level. The data are also analyzed to search for a narrow like-sign dimuon resonance as predicted for e. g. doubly charged Higgs bosons (H-+/-+/-). Assuming pair production of H-+/-+/- bosons and a branching ratio to muons of 100{\%} (33{\%}), this analysis excludes masses below 355 (244) GeV and 251 (209) GeV for H-+/-+/- bosons coupling to left-handed and right-handed fermions, respectively.",
optnote="WOS:000300421500002",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=908), last updated on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:00:23 +0000",
issn="1550-7998",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032004",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1091",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.032004",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1201.1091",
language="English"
}