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Search for long-lived particles decaying to e(+/-)mu(-/+)nu

Aaij, R.
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Beteta, C. Abellan
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Ackernley, T.
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March 26, 2021
The European Physical Journal C

Long-lived particles decaying to e(+/-) mu(-/+)nu, with masses between 7 and 50 GeV/c(2) and lifetimes between 2 and 50 ps, are searched for by looking at displaced vertices containing electrons and muons of opposite charges. The search is performed using 5.4 fb(-1) of pp collisions collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV. 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 125 GeV/c(2), 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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research article
DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08994-0
Web of Science ID

WOS:000634800600002

Author(s)
Aaij, R.
Beteta, C. Abellan
Ackernley, T.
Adeva, B.
Adinolfi, M.
Afsharnia, H.
Aidala, C. A.
Aiola, S.
Ajaltouni, Z.
Akar, S.
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Corporate authors
LHCb collaboration
Date Issued

2021-03-26

Publisher

SPRINGER

Published in
The European Physical Journal C
Volume

81

Issue

3

Start page

261

Subjects

Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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REVIEWED

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April 24, 2021
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