TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Fassi, F. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Kaci, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - March, L. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Miñano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Moles-Valls, R. AU - Moreno Llacer, M. AU - Oliver Garcia, E. AU - Pedraza Lopez, S. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Romero Adam, E. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Martinez, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Torro Pastor, E. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valladolid Gallego, E. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Villaplana Perez, M. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2013 DA - 2013// TI - Search for excited electrons and muons in root s=8 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector T2 - New J. Phys. JO - New Journal of Physics SP - 093011 EP - 32pp VL - 15 PB - Iop Publishing Ltd AB - The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for excited electrons and excited muons in the channel pp -> ll* -> ll gamma, assuming that excited leptons are produced via contact interactions. The analysis is based on 13 fb(-1) of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. No evidence for excited leptons is found, and a limit is set at the 95% credibility level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-lepton mass m(l*). For m(l*) >= 0.8 TeV, the respective upper limits on sigma B(l(*) -> l gamma) are 0.75 and 0.90 fb for the e* and mu* searches. Limits on sigma B are converted into lower bounds on the compositeness scale 3. In the special case where Lambda = m(l*), excited-electron and excited-muon masses below 2.2 TeV are excluded. SN - 1367-2630 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.1364 UR - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011 DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/15/9/093011 LA - English N1 - WOS:000324073000001 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2013 ER -