Title
Search for large extra dimensions in dimuon and dielectron events in pp collisions at s=7 TeV
Date Issued
01 May 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Chatrchyan S.
Khachatryan V.
Sirunyan A.M.
Tumasyan A.
Adam W.
Bergauer T.
Dragicevic M.
Erö J.
Fabjan C.
Friedl M.
Frühwirth R.
Ghete V.M.
Hammer J.
Hoch M.
Hörmann N.
Hrubec J.
Jeitler M.
Kiesenhofer W.
Krammer M.
Liko D.
Mikulec I.
Pernicka M.
Rahbaran B.
Rohringer C.
Rohringer H.
Schöfbeck R.
Strauss J.
Taurok A.
Teischinger F.
Wagner P.
Waltenberger W.
Walzel G.
Widl E.
Wulz C.E.
Mossolov V.
Shumeiko N.
Suarez Gonzalez J.
Bansal S.
Benucci L.
Cornelis T.
De Wolf E.A.
Janssen X.
Luyckx S.
Maes T.
Mucibello L.
Ochesanu S.
Roland B.
Rougny R.
Selvaggi M.
Van Haevermaet H.
Van Mechelen P.
Van Remortel N.
Van Spilbeeck A.
Blekman F.
Blyweert S.
D'Hondt J.
Gonzalez Suarez R.
Kalogeropoulos A.
Maes M.
Olbrechts A.
Van Doninck W.
Van Mulders P.
Van Onsem G.P.
Villella I.
Charaf O.
Clerbaux B.
De Lentdecker G.
Dero V.
Gay A.P.R.
Hammad G.H.
Hreus T.
Léonard A.
Marage P.E.
Thomas L.
Vander Velde C.
Vanlaer P.
Wickens J.
Adler V.
Beernaert K.
Cimmino A.
Costantini S.
Garcia G.
Grunewald M.
Klein B.
Lellouch J.
Marinov A.
Mccartin J.
Ocampo Rios A.A.
Ryckbosch D.
Strobbe N.
Thyssen F.
Tytgat M.
Vanelderen L.
Verwilligen P.
Walsh S.
Yazgan E.
Zaganidis N.
Basegmez S.
Bruno G.
Caudron J.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
Results are presented from a search for large, extra spatial dimensions in events with either two isolated muons or two isolated electrons. The data are from proton-proton interactions at s=7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The size of the data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 2 fb -1. The observed dimuon and dielectron mass spectra are found to be consistent with standard-model expectations. Depending on the number of extra dimensions, the 95% confidence level limits from the combined μμ and ee channels range from M s>2.4 TeV to M s>3.8 TeV, where M s characterizes the scale for the onset of quantum gravity. © 2012 CERN.
Start page
15
End page
34
Volume
711
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84859723346
Source
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
03702693
Sponsor(s)
We thank M.C. Kumar, P. Mathews, and V. Ravindran for useful discussions on QCD NLO corrections in the ADD model. We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC machine. We thank the technical and administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq , CAPES , FAPERJ , and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN ; CAS , MoST , and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB (Estonia); Academy of Finland , MEC , and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF , DFG , and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania); CINVESTAV , CONACYT , SEP , and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MSI (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan); MON , RosAtom , RAS and RFBR (Russia); MSTD (Serbia); MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council (European Union); the Leventis Foundation ; the A.P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans lʼIndustrie et dans lʼAgriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India ; and the HOMING PLUS programme of Foundation for Polish Science , cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund.
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