@article{41372145cb22422d8b114f5326e8ee35,
title = "Search for heavy lepton resonances decaying to a Z boson and a lepton in pp collisions at s√=8",
abstract = "A search for heavy leptons decaying to a Z boson and an electron or a muon is presented. The search is based on pp collision data taken at (Formula presented.) = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. Three high-transverse-momentum electrons or muons are selected, with two of them required to be consistent with originating from a Z boson decay. No significant excess above Standard Model background predictions is observed, and 95% confidence level limits on the production cross section of high-mass trilepton resonances are derived. The results are interpreted in the context of vector-like lepton and type-III seesaw models. For the vector-like lepton model, most heavy lepton mass values in the range 114–176 GeV are excluded. For the type-III seesaw model, most mass values in the range 100–468 GeV are excluded.",
keywords = "Hadron-Hadron Scattering",
author = "{The ATLAS Collaboration} and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and O. Abdinov and R. Aben and M. Abolins and AbouZeid, {O. S.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and L. Adamczyk and Adams, {D. L.} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and T. Adye and Affolder, {A. A.} and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and Ahlen, {S. P.} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and H. Akerstedt and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and G. Akimoto and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alberghi, {G. L.} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and {Alconada Verzini}, {M. J.} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and G. Alimonti and L. Alio and J. Alison and Alkire, {S. P.} and Allbrooke, {B. M.M.} and Allport, {P. P.} and A. Aloisio and E. Cheu and Johns, {K. A.} and P. Loch and Rutherfoord, {J. P.} and Shupe, {M. A.} and Varnes, {E. W.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, The Author(s).",
year = "2015",
month = sep,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP09(2015)108",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2015",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "9",
}