Exclusive excited leptons search in two lepton final states at the CERN-LHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential of the exclusive proton-proton to proton-lepton-lepton-proton process at the LHC to detect excited leptons, using three different forward detector acceptances to determine sensitivity.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analysis of exclusive lepton pair production at the LHC for probing excited leptons with specific detector acceptances.

Findings

Sensitivity at 95% CL for different detector acceptances

Identification of the most promising acceptance range

Enhanced detection prospects for excited leptons

Abstract

We study the potential of the exclusive $pp\to p\ell^-\ell^+p$ process to probe excited leptons at the LHC which is known to be one of the most clean channel at the hadron colliders. The sensitivity of the model parameters is obtained 95% confidence level by considering three forward detector acceptances; $0.0015< \xi < 0.5$, $0.0015< \xi <0.15$ and $0.1< \xi < 0.5$.