PT Journal AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea Garcia Martin, LM Henry, L Martinez-Vidal, F Oyanguren, A Remon Alepuz, C Ruiz Vidal, J Sanchez Mayordomo, C TI Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons SO European Physical Journal C JI Eur. Phys. J. C PY 2018 BP 1008 EP 12pp VL 78 IS 12 DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-8 LA English AB A search is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195 GeV/c(2) decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb -1. The tau leptons are reconstructed in both leptonic and hadronic decay channels. An upper limit on the production cross-sectionmultiplied by the branching fraction at 95% confidence level is set and ranges from 22 pb for a boson mass of 45 GeV/c(2) to 4 pb for a mass of 195 GeV/c(2). ER