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    A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at $sqrt{s};=;8;{rm{TeV}}$ with the ATLAS detector A search for an excited muon decaying to a muon and two jets in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
    (2016) Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdallah, J; Abdinov, O; Abeloos, B; Aben, R; Abolins, M; AbouZeid, O S; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; Abreu, R; Abulaiti, Y; Acharya, B S; Adamczyk, L; Adams, D L; Adelman, J; Adomeit, S; Adye, T; Affolder, A A; Agatonovic-Jovin, T; Agricola, J; Aguilar-Saavedra, J A; Ahlen, S P; Ahmadov, F; Aielli, G; Akerstedt, H; Åkesson, T P A; Akimov, A V; Alberghi, G L; Albert, J; Albrand, S; Alconada Verzini, M J
    A new search signature for excited leptons is explored. Excited muons are sought in the channel pp → µµ∗ → µµ jet jet, assuming both the production and decay occur via a contact interaction. The analysis is based on 20.3 fb−1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 8 TeV taken with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. No evidence of excited muons is found, and limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the cross section times branching ratio as a function of the excited-muon mass mµ ∗ . For mµ ∗ between 1.3 TeV and 3.0 TeV, the upper limit on σB(µ ∗ → µqq¯) is between 0.6 and 1 fb. Limits on σB are converted to lower bounds on the compositeness scale Λ. In the limiting case Λ = mµ ∗ , excited muons with a mass below 2.8 TeV are excluded. With the same model assumptions, these limits at larger µ ∗ masses improve upon previous limits from traditional searches based on the gauge-mediated decay µ ∗ → µγ