Title
Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at s =8 and 13 TeV
Date Issued
28 July 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Khachatryan V.
Sirunyan A.M.
Tumasyan A.
Adam W.
Asilar E.
Bergauer T.
Brandstetter J.
Brondolin E.
Dragicevic M.
Erö J.
Flechl M.
Friedl M.
Frühwirth R.
Ghete V.M.
Hartl C.
Hörmann N.
Hrubec J.
Jeitler M.
König A.
Krätschmer I.
Liko D.
Matsushita T.
Mikulec I.
Rabady D.
Rad N.
Rahbaran B.
Rohringer H.
Schieck J.
Strauss J.
Treberer-Treberspurg W.
Waltenberger W.
Wulz C.E.
Mossolov V.
Shumeiko N.
Suarez Gonzalez J.
Alderweireldt S.
De Wolf E.A.
Janssen X.
Lauwers J.
Van De Klundert M.
Van Haevermaet H.
Van Mechelen P.
Van Remortel N.
Van Spilbeeck A.
Abu Zeid S.
Blekman F.
D'Hondt J.
Daci N.
De Bruyn I.
Deroover K.
Heracleous N.
Lowette S.
Moortgat S.
Moreels L.
Olbrechts A.
Python Q.
Tavernier S.
Van Doninck W.
Van Mulders P.
Van Parijs I.
Brun H.
Caillol C.
Clerbaux B.
De Lentdecker G.
Delannoy H.
Fasanella G.
Favart L.
Goldouzian R.
Grebenyuk A.
Karapostoli G.
Lenzi T.
Léonard A.
Luetic J.
Maerschalk T.
Marinov A.
Randle-Conde A.
Seva T.
Vander Velde C.
Vanlaer P.
Yonamine R.
Zenoni F.
Zhang F.
Cimmino A.
Cornelis T.
Dobur D.
Fagot A.
Garcia G.
Gul M.
Poyraz D.
Salva S.
Schöfbeck R.
Tytgat M.
Van Driessche W.
Yazgan E.
Zaganidis N.
Bakhshiansohi H.
Beluffi C.
Bondu O.
Brochet S.
Bruno G.
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
A search for the resonant production of high-mass photon pairs is presented. The analysis is based on samples of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.7 and 3.3 fb-1, respectively. The interpretation of the search results focuses on spin-0 and spin-2 resonances with masses between 0.5 and 4 TeV and with widths, relative to the mass, between 1.4×10-4 and 5.6×10-2. Limits are set on scalar resonances produced through gluon-gluon fusion, and on Randall-Sundrum gravitons. A modest excess of events compatible with a narrow resonance with a mass of about 750 GeV is observed. The local significance of the excess is approximately 3.4 standard deviations. The significance is reduced to 1.6 standard deviations once the effect of searching under multiple signal hypotheses is considered. More data are required to determine the origin of this excess.
Volume
117
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84982740536
Source
Physical Review Letters
ISSN of the container
00319007
DOI of the container
10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.051802
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation 1120138, 1151640, 1205960, 1211067, 1306951, 1314131, 1506130, 1506168, 1508869, 1606321 NSF
Science and Technology Facilities Council GRIDPP, PP/E000479/1, PP/E002803/1, ST/H000925/1, ST/H000925/2, ST/I000305/1, ST/I003622/1, ST/J004871/1, ST/J005479/1, ST/K001256/1, ST/K001531/1, ST/K001639/1, ST/K003542/1, ST/L005603/1, ST/M002020/1, ST/M004775/1, ST/N000242/1, ST/N000250/1, ST/N001273/1 STFC
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