1. Search for long-lived particles decaying to e± μ∓ ν
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Aaij, R, Beteta, CA, Ackernley, T, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Afsharnia, H, Aidala, CA, Aiola, S, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Albero, AA, Aliouche, Z, Alkhazov, G, Cartelle, PA, Amato, S, Amhis, Y, An, L, Anderlini, L, Andreianov, A, Andreotti, M, Archilli, F, Artamonov, A, Artuso, M, Arzymatov, K, Aslanides, E, Atzeni, M, Audurier, B, Bachmann, S, Bachmayer, M, Back, JJ, Baker, S, Rodriguez, PB, Balagura, V, Baldini, W, Leite, JB, Barlow, RJ, Barsuk, S, Barter, W, Bartolini, M, Baryshnikov, F, Basels, JM, Bassi, G, Batsukh, B, Battig, A, Bay, A, Becker, M, Bedeschi, F, Bediaga, I, Beiter, A, Belavin, V, Belin, S, Bellee, V, Belous, K, Belov, I, Belyaev, I, Bencivenni, G, Ben-Haim, E, Berezhnoy, A, Bernet, R, Berninghoff, D, Bernstein, HC, Bertella, C, Bertholet, E, Bertolin, A, Betancourt, C, Betti, F, Bettler, MO, Bezshyiko, I, Bhasin, S, Bhom, J, Bian, L, Bieker, MS, Bifani, S, Billoir, P, Birch, M, Bishop, FCR, Bizzeti, A, Bjørn, M, Blago, MP, Blake, T, Blanc, F, Blusk, S, Bobulska, D, Boelhauve, JA, Garcia, OB, Boettcher, T, Boldyrev, A, Bondar, A, Bondar, N, Borghi, S, Borisyak, M, Borsato, M, Borsuk, JT, Bouchiba, SA, Bowcock, TJV, Boyer, A, and Bozzi, C
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hep-ex ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Quantum Physics - Abstract
Long-lived particles decaying to e±μ∓ν, with masses between 7 and 50GeV/c2 and lifetimes between 2 and 50ps, are searched for by looking at displaced vertices containing electrons and muons of opposite charges. The search is performed using 5.4fb-1 of pp collisions collected with the LHCb detector at a centre-of-mass energy of s=13TeV. 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 125GeV/c2, 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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- 2021