TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Cardillo, F.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Didenko, M.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
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  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Martinez Agullo, P.
AU  - Miralles Lopez, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Navarro-Gonzalez, J.
AU  - Poveda, J.
AU  - Prades Ibañez, A.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Sabatini, P.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Sanchez Sebastian, V.
AU  - Sayago Galvan, I.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Torro Pastor, E.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Villaplana Perez, M.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in Z-Boson Decays with tau Leptons with the ATLAS Detector
T2  - Phys. Rev. Lett.
JO  - Physical Review Letters
SP  - 271801 - 20pp
VL  - 127
IS  - 27
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0031-9007
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12491
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.271801
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.271801
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000754272800005
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2021
ER  -