Search for type-III seesaw heavy leptons in dilepton final states in pp collisions at √s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, G Aad, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Eric Edward Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Jannik Geisen, Kristian Gregersen, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Caterina Marcon, Ulf Mjörnmark, Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier, Ruth Pöttgen, Trine PoulsenEleni Skorda, Oxana Smirnova, L Zwalinski

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Abstract

A search for the pair production of heavy leptons as predicted by the type-III seesaw mechanism is presented. The search uses proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to 139fb-1 of integrated luminosity recorded by the ATLAS detector during Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis focuses on the final state with two light leptons (electrons or muons) of different flavour and charge combinations, with at least two jets and large missing transverse momentum. No significant excess over the Standard Model expectation is observed. The results are translated into exclusion limits on heavy-lepton masses, and the observed lower limit on the mass of the type-III seesaw heavy leptons is 790 GeV at 95% confidence level. © 2021, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number218
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume81
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Subatomic Physics

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