Search for lepton flavour violation in the continuum with the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text] pp collisions at the LHC

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2012;72(6):2040. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2040-z. Epub 2012 Jun 14.

Abstract

This paper presents a search for the t-channel exchange of an R-parity violating scalar top quark ([Formula: see text]) in the e±μ continuum using 2.1 fb-1 of data collected by the ATLAS detector in [Formula: see text]pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Data are found to be consistent with the expectation from the Standard Model backgrounds. Limits on R-parity-violating couplings at 95 % C.L. are calculated as a function of the scalar top mass ([Formula: see text]). The upper limits on the production cross section for ppeμX, through the t-channel exchange of a scalar top quark, ranges from 170 fb for [Formula: see text] to 30 fb for [Formula: see text].