Search for excited leptons with the ATLAS detector
@inproceedings{Mahlstedt2016SearchFE,
title={Search for excited leptons with the ATLAS detector},
author={Joern Mahlstedt},
year={2016}
}The Standard Model of particle physics assumes that the world consists of leptons (electrons, muons, taus and neutrinos) and quarks that are elementary particles. We measure that leptons and quarks have a mass hierarchy that could be explained by an underlying substructure of even smaller particles. Then leptons and quarks would be the lowest stable energetic states and higher energy excited states would exist and could be probed experimentally. In this thesis a search for these excited states…
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