Search for microscopic black holes and string balls in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at = 8 TeV
Abstract
A search for an excess of events with multiple high transverse momentum objects including charged leptons and jets is presented, using 20.3 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of = 8 TeV. No excess of events beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. Using extra-dimensional models for black hole and string ball production and decay, exclusion contours are determined as a function of the mass threshold for production and the fundamental gravity scale for two, four and six extra dimensions. For six extra dimensions, mass thresholds of 4.8-6.2 TeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level, depending on the fundamental gravity scale and model assumptions. Upper limits on the fiducial cross-sections for non-Standard Model production of these final states are set. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1405.4254
- Bibcode:
- 2014JHEP...08..103A
- Keywords:
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- Hadron-Hadron Scattering;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- Comments: 35 pages plus author list (58 pages total), 11 figures, 8 tables, submitted to JHEP, All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2013-05/