LHCb CollaborationAdeva Andany, BernardoAlves Junior, Antonio AugustoBoente García, ÓscarBorsato, MartinoChobanova, VeronikaCid Vidal, XabierDosil Suárez, ÁlvaroFernández Prieto, AntonioGallas Torreira, Abraham AntonioGarcía Plana, BeatrizLucio Martínez, MiriamMartínez Santos, DiegoPlo Casasus, MáximoPrisciandaro, James J.Ramos Pernas, MiguelRomero Vidal, AntonioSaborido Silva, Juan JoséSanmartín Sedes, BraisSantamarina Ríos, CibránVázquez Regueiro, PabloVieites Díaz, María2020-05-142020-05-142018Aaij, R., Abellán Beteta, C., Adeva, B. et al. Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of Higgs-like bosons. Eur. Phys. J. C 78, 1008 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-81434-6044http://hdl.handle.net/10347/22299Asearch is presented for a Higgs-like boson with mass in the range 45 to 195 GeV/c2 decaying into a muon and a tau lepton. The dataset consists of proton-proton interactions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb−1. The tau leptons are reconstructed in both leptonic and hadronic decay channels. An upper limit on the production cross-sectionmultiplied by the branching fraction at 95% confidence level is set and ranges from 22 pb for a boson mass of 45 GeV/c2 to 4 pb for a mass of 195 GeV/c2.eng© CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/journal article10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6386-81434-6052open access