%0 Journal Article %T Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector %A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al %A Alvarez Piqueras, D. %A Cabrera Urban, S. %A Castillo Gimenez, V. %A Costa, M. J. %A Fernandez Martinez, P. %A Ferrer, A. %A Fiorini, L. %A Fuster, J. %A Garcia, C. %A Garcia Navarro, J. E. %A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. %A Hernandez Jimenez, Y. %A Higon-Rodriguez, E. %A Irles Quiles, A. %A Jimenez Pena, J. %A Kaci, M. %A King, M. %A Lacasta, C. %A Lacuesta, V. R. %A Marti-Garcia, S. %A Mitsou, V. A. %A Moles-Valls, R. %A Oliver Garcia, E. %A Pedraza Lopez, S. %A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. %A Romero Adam, E. %A Ros, E. %A Salt, J. %A Sanchez Martinez, V. %A Soldevila, U. %A Sanchez, J. %A Torro Pastor, E. %A Valero, A. %A Valladolid Gallego, E. %A Valls Ferrer, J. A. %A Vos, M. %J Journal of High Energy Physics %D 2015 %V 09 %N 9 %I Springer %@ 1029-8479 %G English %F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2015 %O WOS:000363539700001 %O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2436), last updated on Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:01:18 +0000 %X A search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at root s = 8TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1). Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114-176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100-468 GeV are excluded. %K Hadron-Hadron Scattering %R 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)108 %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01291 %U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)108 %P 108-38pp