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Search for the Lepton Flavor Violating Decay
Z
→
eμ
Author Info
Fernando, Waruna Sri
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290045960
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Physics.
Abstract
We present a search for the lepton flavor violating decay
Z
→
eμ
in proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV using approximately 3.1 pb
-1
of data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the CERN large hadron collider. Candidate events have two isolated high p
T
leptons (an electron and a muon), no jets, and little missing transverse energy. We observe no events with
eμ
invariant mass above 60 GeV/c
2
. This demonstrates that we can suppress the
eμ
background to a negligible level and are sensitive to exotic
eμ
production. We set 95% confidence upper limit on the
Z
→
eμ
branching ratio of 2.0 × 10
-4
.
Committee
KK Gan, PhD (Advisor)
Brian Winer, PhD (Committee Member)
Stuart A Raby, PhD (Committee Member)
Fengyuan Yang, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
130 p.
Subject Headings
Physics
Keywords
lepton flavor violation atlas LHC
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Fernando, W. S. (2010).
Search for the Lepton Flavor Violating Decay
Z
→
eμ
[Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290045960
APA Style (7th edition)
Fernando, Waruna.
Search for the Lepton Flavor Violating Decay
Z
→
eμ
.
2010. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290045960.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Fernando, Waruna. "Search for the Lepton Flavor Violating Decay
Z
→
eμ
." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1290045960
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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