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Observation of the Rare Decay η→μ+μ−e+e−

A. Hayrapetyan1, V. Makarenko1, A. Tumasyan1,a, W. Adam2, L. Benato2, T. Bergauer2, M. Dragicevic2, P. S. Hussain2, M. Jeitler2,b et al. (CMS Collaboration)

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  • 1Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
  • 2Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria
  • 3Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
  • 4Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
  • 5Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • 6Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • 7Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 8Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 9Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 10Universidade Estadual Paulista and Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 11Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 12University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 13CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 14Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile
  • 15Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile
  • 16Beihang University, Beijing, China
  • 17Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  • 18Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
  • 19State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • 20State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Institute of Quantum Matter, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, Guangzhou, China
  • 21Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • 22University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
  • 23Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
  • 24Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)—Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • 25Zhejiang University—Department of Physics, Zhejiang, China
  • 26Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
  • 27Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
  • 28University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Split, Croatia
  • 29University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia
  • 30Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 31University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 32Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 33Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
  • 34Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt
  • 35Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt
  • 36National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 37Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 38Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
  • 39Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
  • 40IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 41Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
  • 42Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
  • 43Centre de Calcul de l’Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
  • 44Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), Villeurbanne, France
  • 45Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 46RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany
  • 47RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
  • 48RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany
  • 49Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
  • 50University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • 51Institut für Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 52Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
  • 53National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 54National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 55University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece
  • 56HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
  • 57MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
  • 58Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, Debrecen, Hungary
  • 59HUN-REN ATOMKI—Institute of Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary
  • 60Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
  • 61Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
  • 62Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
  • 63University of Delhi, Delhi, India
  • 64Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT-Mandi), Himachal Pradesh, India
  • 65University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
  • 66Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
  • 67Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India
  • 68Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
  • 69Indian lnstitute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, India
  • 70Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India
  • 71Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India
  • 72National Institute of Science Education and Research, Jatni, Khorda, Odisha 752050, India Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India, Odisha, India
  • 73Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
  • 74Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India
  • 75Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
  • 76Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
  • 77University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  • 78aINFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 78bUniversità di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 78cPolitecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
  • 79aINFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 79bUniversità di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 80aINFN Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 80bUniversità di Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 81aINFN Sezione di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
  • 81bUniversità di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
  • 82INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
  • 83aINFN Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy
  • 83bUniversità di Genova, Genova, Italy
  • 84aINFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • 84bUniversità di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • 85aINFN Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  • 85bUniversità di Napoli ’Federico II’, Napoli, Italy
  • 85cUniversità della Basilicata (Potenza), Napoli, Italy
  • 85dScuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM), Napoli, Italy
  • 86aINFN Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
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  • 86cUniversita degli Studi di Cagliari, Padova, Italy
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  • 89bUniversità di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • 89cScuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • 89dUniversità di Siena, Pisa, Italy
  • 90aINFN Sezione di Roma, Roma, Italy
  • 90bSapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy
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  • 91bUniversità di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • 91cUniversità del Piemonte Orientale (Novara), Torino, Italy
  • 92aINFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
  • 92bUniversità di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
  • 93Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
  • 94Department of Mathematics and Physics—Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Korea
  • 95Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea
  • 96Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
  • 97Korea University, Seoul, Korea
  • 98Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea
  • 99Sejong University, Seoul, Korea
  • 100Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • 101University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
  • 102Yonsei University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea
  • 103Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
  • 104College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Dasman, Kuwait
  • 105Kuwait University—College of Science—Department of Physics, Safat, Kuwait
  • 106Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
  • 107University of Latvia (LU), Riga, Latvia
  • 108Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 109National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 110University of Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico
  • 111Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 112Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 113Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
  • 114University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 115University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • 116National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 117AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
  • 118National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland
  • 119Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • 120Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
  • 121Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 122Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 123Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 124Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
  • 125Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 126Universidad de Oviedo, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Oviedo, Spain
  • 127Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
  • 128University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • 129University of Ruhuna, Department of Physics, Matara, Sri Lanka
  • 130PSI Center for Neutron and Muon Sciences, Villigen, Switzerland
  • 131ETH Zurich—Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland
  • 132Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 133National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
  • 134National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
  • 135High Energy Physics Research Unit, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 136Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia
  • 137Çukurova University, Adana, Türkiye
  • 138Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 139Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 140Bogazici University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 141Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 142Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 143Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Türkiye
  • 144Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 145National Science Centre, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 146University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • 147Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, United Kingdom
  • 148Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
  • 149Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
  • 150The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
  • 151University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
  • 152University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
  • 153University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • 154California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
  • 155University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA
  • 156University of California, Santa Barbara—Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, California, USA
  • 157University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
  • 158The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
  • 159University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  • 160Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, USA
  • 161Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
  • 162Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • 163University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 164Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
  • 165Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, USA
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  • 173Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • 177University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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  • 179University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
  • 180Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
  • 181Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  • 182State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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  • 185The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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  • 188Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
  • 189University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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  • 192Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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  • 196University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
  • 197An institute or international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
  • 198An institute formerly covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN

  • *Full author list given at the end of the article.
  • aAlso at Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.
  • bAlso at Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.
  • cAlso at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
  • dAlso at FACAMP—Faculdades de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • eAlso at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
  • fAlso at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
  • gAlso at The University of the State of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil.
  • hAlso at Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany.
  • iAlso at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
  • jAlso at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • kAlso at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • lAlso at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • mAlso at School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
  • nAlso at Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China.
  • oAlso at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
  • pAlso at The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
  • qAlso at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
  • rAlso at Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China, Beijing, China.
  • sAlso at Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • tAlso at Zewail City of Science and Technology, Zewail, Egypt.
  • uAlso at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
  • vAlso at Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France.
  • wAlso at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
  • xAlso at Another institute or international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN.
  • yAlso at University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
  • zAlso at RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany.
  • aaAlso at Bergische University Wuppertal (BUW), Wuppertal, Germany.
  • bbAlso at Institute for Advanced Simulation—Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Juelich, Germany.
  • ccAlso at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • ddAlso at HUN-REN ATOMKI—Institute of Nuclear Research, Debrecen, Hungary.
  • eeAlso at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai—Facultatea de Fizica, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  • ffAlso at MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • ggAlso at HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
  • hhAlso at Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
  • iiAlso at The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
  • jjAlso at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India.
  • kkAlso at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
  • llAlso at Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, India.
  • mmAlso at University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India.
  • nnAlso at Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • ooAlso at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
  • ppAlso at Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran.
  • qqAlso at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
  • rrAlso at Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran.
  • ssAlso at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Arak University, Arak, Iran.
  • ttAlso at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy.
  • uuAlso at Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e di Struttura della Materia, Catania, Italy.
  • vvAlso at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA.
  • wwAlso at Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Roma, Italy.
  • xxAlso at Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Napoli, Italy.
  • yyAlso at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA.
  • zzAlso at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro dell’INFN, Legnaro, Italy.
  • aaaAlso at Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.
  • bbbAlso at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche—Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Perugia, Italy.
  • cccAlso at UPES—University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India.
  • dddAlso at Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I), Villeurbanne, France.
  • eeeAlso at Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
  • fffAlso at Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, Nilaveli, Sri Lanka.
  • gggAlso at Saegis Campus, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
  • hhhAlso at Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • iiiAlso at Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics (SMI), Vienna, Austria.
  • jjjAlso at Near East University, Research Center of Experimental Health Science, Mersin, Türkiye.
  • kkkAlso at Konya Technical University, Konya, Türkiye.
  • lllAlso at Istanbul Topkapi University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • mmmAlso at Izmir Bakircay University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Izmir, Türkiye.
  • nnnAlso at Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Türkiye.
  • oooAlso at Bozok Universitetesi Rektörlügü, Yozgat, Türkiye.
  • pppAlso at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • qqqAlso at Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • rrrAlso at Milli Savunma University, Naval Academy, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • sssAlso at The Science and Technological research Council of Türkiye, Informatics and Information Security Research Center, Gebze/Kocaeli, Türkiye.
  • tttAlso at Kafkas University, Kars, Türkiye.
  • uuuAlso at Istanbul Okan University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • vvvAlso at Istanbul University—Cerrahpasa, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • wwwAlso at Istinye University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
  • xxxAlso at School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
  • yyyAlso at Monash University, Faculty of Science, Clayton, Australia.
  • zzzAlso at Università di Torino, Torino, Italy.
  • aaaaAlso at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
  • bbbbAlso at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
  • ccccAlso at United States Naval Academy—Physics Department, Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
  • ddddAlso at Another institute formerly covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN.
  • eeeeAlso at Bingol University, Bingol, Türkiye.
  • ffffAlso at Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
  • ggggAlso at Sinop University, Sinop, Türkiye.
  • hhhhAlso at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye.
  • iiiiAlso at Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Bucharest, Romania.
  • jjjjAlso at University of California, Irvine.
  • kkkkAlso at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Türkiye.
  • llllAlso at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.
  • mmmmAlso at Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia.
  • nnnnAlso at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 191902 – Published 3 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/dv54-jq8p

Abstract

A first observation of the rare decay η→μ+μ−e+e− is reported by the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC. The result is based on a proton-proton collision data sample at s=13.6  TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 38.0  fb−1, acquired in 2022 using a high-rate dimuon trigger. Using the η→μ+μ−γ decay channel for normalization, the branching fraction is measured to be B(η→μ+μ−e+e−)=(2.4±0.8)×10−6, with the uncertainty including statistical and systematic sources as well as the B(η→μ+μ−γ) uncertainty. This result is about a factor of 3 smaller than the existing limit and is consistent with recent theoretical predictions.

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