Flavoured searches for type-III seesaw at the LHC Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio Boavida, P. M. Joaquim, F. R. We present a reinterpretation of CMS searches for type-III seesaw lepton triplets at the LHC, both for the normal and the inverse seesaw. We find that, in contrast with previous expectations, these searches in the trilepton final state have a good sensitivity to triplets with predominant coupling to the tau lepton. We also show that the limits resulting from direct searches can be neatly presented for arbitrary masses and general flavour mixings. Thus, it turns out that the common (and often unrealistic) simplifying assumptions about the flavour couplings of the triplets used by experimental collaborations to present their results are unnecessary and should be dropped. 2014-02-17T10:18:02Z 2014-02-17T10:18:02Z 2013 journal article Aguilar-Saavedra, J.A.; Boavida, P.M.; Joaquim, F.R. Flavoured searches for type-III seesaw at the LHC. Physical Review D. 88(11): 113008 (2013). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30467] 1550-7998 1550-2368 doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.113008 arXiv:1308.3226v2 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30467 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ open access Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License American Physical Society