%0 Journal Article
%T Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in Z-Boson Decays with tau Leptons with the ATLAS Detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Cardillo, F.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Didenko, M.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%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 Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
%A Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Martinez Agullo, P.
%A Miralles Lopez, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
%A Poveda, J.
%A Prades Ibañez, A.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Sabatini, P.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Sebastian, V.
%A Sayago Galvan, I.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review Letters
%D 2021
%V 127
%N 27
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 0031-9007
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2021
%O WOS:000754272800005
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=5124), last updated on Mon, 28 Feb 2022 19:31:37 +0000
%X A search for lepton-flavor-violating Z -> e tau and Z -> μtau decays with pp collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses 139 fb(-1) of Run 2 pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV and is combined with the results of a similar ATLAS search in the final state in which the tau lepton decays hadronically, using the same data set as well as Run 1 data. The addition of leptonically decaying tau leptons significantly improves the sensitivity reach for Z -> l tau decays. The Z -> l tau branching fractions are constrained in this analysis to B(Z -> e tau) < 7.0 x 10(-6) and B (Z -> μtau) < 7.2 x 10(-6) at 95% confidence level. The combination with the previously published analyses sets the strongest constraints to date: B(Z -> e tau) < 5.0 x 10(-6) and B(Z -> μtau) < 6.5 x 10(-6) at 95% confidence level.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.271801
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12491
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.271801
%P 271801 - 20pp