TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Amos, K. R.
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Bouchhar, N.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Cantero, J.
AU  - Cardillo, F.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Chitishvili, M.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Didenko
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gomez Delegido, A. J.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Martinez Agullo, P.
AU  - Miralles Lopez, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Monsonis Romero, L.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Munoz Perez, D.
AU  - Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
AU  - Poveda, J.
AU  - Prades Ibañez, A.
AU  - Rubio Jimenez, A.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Sabatini, P.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Sebastian, V.
AU  - Sayago Galvan, I.
AU  - Senthilkumar, V.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Varriale, L.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Searches for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs boson into eτ and μτ in √s=13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 166
EP  - 74pp
VL  - 07
IS  - 7
PB  - Springer
KW  - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
AB  - This paper presents direct searches for lepton flavour violation in Higgs boson decays, H -> e tau and H -> μtau, performed using data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The searches are based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Leptonic (tau -> l nu(l)nu(tau)) and hadronic (tau -> hadrons nu(tau)) decays of the tau-lepton are considered. Two background estimation techniques are employed: the MC-template method, based on data-corrected simulation samples, and the Symmetry method, based on exploiting the symmetry between electrons and muons in the Standard Model backgrounds. No significant excess of events is observed and the results are interpreted as upper limits on lepton-flavour-violating branching ratios of the Higgs boson. The observed (expected) upper limits set on the branching ratios at 95% confidence level, B(H -> e tau) < 0.20% (0.12%) and B(H -> μtau ) < 0.18% (0.09%), are obtained with the MC-template method from a simultaneous measurement of potential H -> e tau and H -> μtau signals. The best-fit branching ratio difference, B(H -> μtau) -> B(H -> e tau), measured with the Symmetry method in the channel where the tau-lepton decays to leptons, is (0.25 0.10)%, compatible with a value of zero within 2.5 sigma.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05225
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)166
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)166
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001061947900001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
ER  -