Search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson to eτ and eμ in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.062

Search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson to eτ and eμ in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

A direct search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson (H) in the H→eτ and H→eμ channels is described. The data sample used in the search was collected in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹. No evidence is found for lepton flavour violating decays in either final state. Upper limits on the branching fractions, B(H→eτ)<0.69% and B(H→eμ)<0.035%, are set at the 95% confidence level. The constraint set on B(H→eτ) is an order of magnitude more stringent than the existing indirect limits. The limits are used to constrain the corresponding flavour violating Yukawa couplings, absent in the standard model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	472-500
Number of pages	29
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	763
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.09.062
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2016

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Funding

Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (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 Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research , India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science , cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund, the Mobility Plus programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education , the OPUS programme contract 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 and contract Sonata-bis DEC-2012/07/E/ST2/01406 of the National Science Center (Poland); the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF ; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund ; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias ; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship , Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project (Thailand); and the Welch Foundation , contract C-1845 .

Funders	Funder number
EU-ESF
National Science Foundation	1606321, 1151640, 1506168, 1506130, 1120138, 1211067, 1508869
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Welch Foundation	C-1845
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Qatar National Research Fund
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000250/1, ST/K001256/1, GRIDPP
European Commission
European Research Council
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy
Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Chulalongkorn University
Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie
Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture
A.G. Leventis Foundation
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki	2014/13/B/ST2/02543, DEC-2012/07/E/ST2/01406
European Regional Development Fund

Keywords

CMS
Higgs
Lepton-flavour-violation
Physics

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Search for lepton flavour violating decays of the Higgs boson to eτ and eμ in proton–proton collisions at s=8 TeV

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