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Search for long-lived particles decaying to e ± μ ∓ ν

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Authors

Aaij, R. 
Beteta, C. Abellán 
Ackernley, T. 
Adeva, B. 
Adinolfi, M. 

Abstract

Abstract: Long-lived particles decaying to e±μ∓ν, with masses between 7 and 50GeV/c2 and lifetimes between 2 and 50ps, are searched for by looking at displaced vertices containing electrons and muons of opposite charges. The search is performed using 5.4fb-1 of pp collisions collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV. Three mechanisms of production of long-lived particles are considered: the direct pair production from quark interactions, the pair production from the decay of a Standard-Model-like Higgs boson with a mass of 125GeV/c2, and the charged current production from an on-shell W boson with an additional lepton. No evidence of these long-lived states is obtained and upper limits on the production cross-section times branching fraction are set on the different production modes.

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Regular Article – Experimental Physics

Journal Title

The European Physical Journal C

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Journal ISSN

1434-6044
1434-6052

Volume Title

81

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg