%0 Journal Article
%T Search for excited electrons singly produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Barranco Navarro, L.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo, F. L.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Cerda Alberich, L.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Madaffari, D.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Melini, D.
%A Miñano, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Salt, J.
%A Santra, A.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2019
%V 79
%N 9
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2019
%O WOS:000490526000004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4180), last updated on Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:49:44 +0000
%X A search for excited electrons produced in pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV via a contact interaction q (q) over bar -> ee* is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb(-1) of data collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Decays of the excited electron into an electron and a pair of quarks (eq (q) over bar) are targeted in final states with two electrons and two hadronic jets, and decays via a gauge interaction into a neutrino and a W boson (nu W) are probed in final states with an electron, missing transverse momentum, and a large-radius jet consistent with a hadronically decaying W boson. No significant excess is observed over the expected backgrounds. Upper limits are calculated for the pp -> ee* -> eeq (q) over bar and pp -> ee* -> e nu W production cross sections as a function of the excited electron mass m(e)* at 95% confidence level. The limits are translated into lower bounds on the compositeness scale parameter Lambda of the model as a function of m(e)*. For m(e)* < 0.5 TeV, the lower bound for Lambda is 11 TeV. In the special case of m(e)* = Lambda, the values of m(e)* < 4.8 TeV are excluded. The presented limits on Lambda are more stringent than those obtained in previous searches.
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03204
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1
%P 803 - 30pp