PT Journal AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea Alvarez Piqueras, D Barranco Navarro, L Cabrera Urban, S Castillo Gimenez, V Cerda Alberich, L Costa, MJ Fernandez Martinez, P Ferrer, A Fiorini, L Fuster, J Garcia, C Garcia Navarro, JE Gonzalez de la Hoz, S Hernandez Jimenez, Y Higon-Rodriguez, E Jimenez Pena, J King, M Lacasta, C Lacuesta, VR Mamuzic, J Marti-Garcia, S Melini, D Mitsou, VA Pedraza Lopez, S Rodriguez Rodriguez, D Romero Adam, E Ros, E Salt, J Sanchez Martinez, V Soldevila, U Sanchez, J Valero, A Valls Ferrer, JA Vos, M TI Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector SO European Physical Journal C JI Eur. Phys. J. C PY 2017 BP 70 - 31pp VL 77 IS 2 DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4624-0 LA English AB Direct searches for lepton flavour violation in decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC are presented. The following three decays are considered: H -> e tau, H -> μtau, and Z -> μtau. The searches are based on the data sample of proton-proton collisions collected by the ATLAS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and upper limits on the lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios are set at the 95% confidence level: Br(H -> e tau) < 1.04%, Br(H -> μtau) < 1.43%, and Br(Z -> μtau) < 1.69 x 10(-5). ER