Search for vector-like leptons with long-lived particle decays in the CMS muon system in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=TgRrsJwk8n" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=TgRrsJwk8n</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2025)156" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP08(2025)156</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Search for vector-like leptons with long-lived particle decays in the CMS muon system in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
Original language description
A first search is presented for vector-like leptons (VLLs) exclusively decaying into a light long-lived pseudoscalar boson and a standard model tau lepton. The pseudoscalar boson is assumed to have a mass below the tau(+)tau(-) threshold, so that it decays exclusively into two photons. It is identified using the CMS muon system. The analysis is carried out using a data set of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). Selected events contain at least one pseudoscalar boson decaying electromagnetically in the muon system and at least one hadronically decaying tau lepton. No significant excess of data events is observed compared to the background expectation. Upper limits are set at 95% confidence level on the vector-like lepton production cross section as a function of the VLL mass and the pseudoscalar boson mean proper decay length. The observed and expected exclusion ranges of the VLL mass extend up to 700 and 670 GeV, respectively, depending on the pseudoscalar boson lifetime.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10300 - Physical sciences

Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2023040" target="_blank" >LM2023040: Research infrastructure for experiments at CERN</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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