@article{1f6f437332a3495bb445c8670767a900,
title = "Search for excited electrons singly produced in proton–proton collisions at √s=13Te with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC",
abstract = "A search for excited electrons produced in pp collisions at s = 13 Te via a contact interaction qq¯ → ee∗ is presented. The search uses 36.1 fb- 1 of data collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Decays of the excited electron into an electron and a pair of quarks (eqq¯) are targeted in final states with two electrons and two hadronic jets, and decays via a gauge interaction into a neutrino and a W boson (νW) are probed in final states with an electron, missing transverse momentum, and a large-radius jet consistent with a hadronically decaying W boson. No significant excess is observed over the expected backgrounds. Upper limits are calculated for the pp→ ee∗→ eeqq¯ and pp→ ee∗→ eνW production cross sections as a function of the excited electron mass me∗ at 95% confidence level. The limits are translated into lower bounds on the compositeness scale parameter Λ of the model as a function of me∗. For me∗<0.5 Te, the lower bound for Λ is 11 Te. In the special case of me∗=Λ, the values of me∗<4.8 Te are excluded. The presented limits on Λ are more stringent than those obtained in previous searches.",
keywords = "PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS, LEPTON PRODUCTION, PP COLLISIONS, EP COLLISIONS, PLUS PLUS, PHYSICS, QUARK",
author = "{The ATLAS collaboration} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and Abbott, {D. C.} and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and Abhayasinghe, {D. K.} and Abidi, {S. H.} and AbouZeid, {O. S.} and Abraham, {N. L.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and S. Adachi and L. Adam and Bourdarios, {C. Adam} and L. Adamczyk and L. Adamek and J. Adelman and M. Adersberger and A. Adiguzel and T. Adye and Affolder, {A. A.} and Y. Afik and C. Agapopoulou and C. Agheorghiesei and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and S. Akatsuka and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and E. Akilli and Anisenkov, {A. V.} and Baldin, {E. M.} and K. Beloborodov and Bobrovnikov, {V. S.} and Bogdanchikov, {A. G.} and Buzykaev, {A. R.} and Kazanin, {V. F.} and Kharlamov, {A. G.} and T. Kharlamova and Maslennikov, {A. L.} and Maximov, {D. A.} and P. Podberezko and Rezanova, {O. L.} and Soukharev, {A. M.} and Talyshev, {A. A.} and Tikhonov, {Yu A.} and V. Zhulanov and Пелеганчук, {Сергей Владимирович}",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7295-1",
language = "English",
volume = "79",
journal = "European Physical Journal C",
issn = "1434-6044",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
number = "9",
}