Abstract
An inclusive search for nonresonant signatures of beyond the standard model (SM) phenomena in events with three or more charged leptons, including hadronically decaying τ leptons, is presented. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016-2018. Events are categorized based on the lepton and b-tagged jet multiplicities and various kinematic variables. Three scenarios of physics beyond the SM are probed, and signal-specific boosted decision trees are used for enhancing sensitivity. No significant deviations from the background expectations are observed. Lower limits are set at 95% confidence level on the mass of type-III seesaw heavy fermions in the range 845-1065 GeV for various decay branching fraction combinations to SM leptons. Doublet and singlet vectorlike τ lepton extensions of the SM are excluded for masses below 1045 GeV and in the mass range 125-150 GeV, respectively. Scalar leptoquarks decaying exclusively to a top quark and a lepton are excluded below 1.12-1.42 TeV, depending on the lepton flavor. For the type-III seesaw as well as the vectorlike doublet model, these constraints are the most stringent to date. For the vectorlike singlet model, these are the first constraints from the LHC experiments. Detailed results are also presented to facilitate alternative theoretical interpretations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 112007 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and other centers for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC, the CMS detector, and the supporting computing infrastructure provided by the following funding agencies: BMBWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, FAPERGS, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES and BNSF (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); MINCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RIF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC PUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), and Helsinki Institute of Physics (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRI (Greece); NKFIA (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); MES (Latvia); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); BUAP, CINVESTAV, CONACYT, LNS, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MOS (Montenegro); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, RFBR, and NRC KI (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); MCIN/AEI and PCTI (Spain); MOSTR (Sri Lanka); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Rachada-pisek Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and Horizon 2020 Grant, contracts No. 675440, No. 724704, No. 752730, No. 758316, No. 765710, No. 824093, No. 884104, and COST Action No. CA16108 (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the F. R. S.-FNRS and FWO (Belgium) under the “Excellence of Science—EOS”—be.h project No. 30820817; the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission, No. Z191100007219010; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2121 “Quantum Universe”—390833306, and under project number 400140256—GRK2497; the Lendület (“Momentum”) Program and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the New National Excellence Program ÚNKP, the NKFIA research grants No. 123842, No. 123959, No. 124845, No. 124850, No. 125105, No. 128713, No. 128786, and No. 129058 (Hungary); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Latvian Council of Science; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center, contracts Opus No. 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 and No. 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 (Poland); the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, grant No. CEECIND/01334/2018 (Portugal); the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, projects no. 0723-2020-0041 and no. FSWW-2020-0008 (Russia); MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, ERDF “a way of making Europe”, and the Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu, grant No. MDM-2017-0765 and Programa Severo Ochoa del Principado de Asturias (Spain); the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (Greece); the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); the Kavli Foundation; the Nvidia Corporation; the SuperMicro Corporation; the Welch Foundation, contract C-1845; and the Weston Havens Foundation (USA).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| ERC PUT | |
| Excellence of Science | 30820817 |
| GSRI | |
| Helsinki Institute of Physics | |
| MINCIENCIAS | |
| MSES | |
| MoER | |
| PCTI | |
| Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia María de Maeztu | MDM-2017-0765 |
| STAR | |
| National Science Foundation | |
| U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | |
| Welch Foundation | C-1845 |
| Kavli Foundation | |
| Maryland Ornithological Society | |
| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| NVIDIA | |
| Qatar National Research Fund | FSWW-2020-0008, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, 0723-2020-0041 |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit | |
| Secretaría de Educación Pública | |
| Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu | |
| Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | |
| Weston Havens Foundation | |
| Louisiana Academy of Sciences | |
| CERN | |
| Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics | |
| Cosmetic Surgery Foundation | |
| Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology | |
| Ministerstwo Obrony Narodowej | |
| Science and Technology Facilities Council | |
| European Research Council | |
| European Cooperation in Science and Technology | CA16108 |
| Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India | |
| Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India | |
| Ministry of Education - Singapore | |
| Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India | |
| Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland | |
| Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft | |
| Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | 400140256—GRK2497, 390833306 |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | |
| National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy | |
| National Science Council | |
| Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia | CEECIND/01334/2018 |
| Russian Foundation for Basic Research | |
| Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior | |
| Academy of Finland | |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Austrian Science Fund | |
| Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS | |
| Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| Belgian Federal Science Policy Office | |
| Chulalongkorn University | |
| Opetus- ja Kulttuuriministeriö | |
| Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie | |
| Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture | |
| Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología | |
| Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte | |
| Bulgarian National Science Fund | |
| Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | |
| Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | |
| Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning | |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | |
| Magyar Tudományos Akadémia | 124845, 123842, 129058, 125105, 124850, 128786, 128713, 123959 |
| Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare | |
| A.G. Leventis Foundation | |
| National Science and Technology Development Agency | Thailand |
| Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul | |
| Narodowe Centrum Nauki | 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, 2015/19/B/ST2/02861 |
| Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación | |
| Stavros Niarchos Foundation | |
| Universiti Malaya | |
| Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu | |
| Ministarstvo Prosvete, Nauke i Tehnološkog Razvoja | |
| Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki | |
| Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
| Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan | |
| National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
| Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | |
| Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí | |
| Latvijas Zinātnes Padome | |
| Ministry of Education and Science | |
| Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences | |
| Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla | |
| Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives | |
| Horizon 2020 | 724704, 758316, 824093, 675440, 752730, 765710, 884104 |
| European Regional Development Fund | |
| State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM | |
| Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional | |
| Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission | |
| Ministry of Science,Technology and Research | |
| Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission | Z191100007219010 |
| Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie | |
| Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules | |
| Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovaciós Alap | |
| National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" | |
| Laboratorio Nacional de Supercómputo del Sureste de Mexico |