TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Barranco Navarro, L.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo, F. L.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Cerda Alberich, L.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Madaffari, D.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Melini, D.
AU  - Miñano, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Rodriguez Bosca, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Santra, A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019//
TI  - Search for excited electrons singly produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC
T2  - Eur. Phys. J. C
JO  - European Physical Journal C
SP  - 803 - 30pp
VL  - 79
IS  - 9
PB  - Springer
AB  - 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.
SN  - 1434-6044
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03204
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1
DO  - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000490526000004
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2019
ER  -