Search for high-mass resonances in dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
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CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Brandon Leigh
Azzolini, Virginia
Barbieri, Richard Alexander
Baty, Austin Alan
Bauer, Gerry P
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Date Issued
June 2018
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Sirunyan, A. M. et al. “Search for high-mass resonances in dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2018, 6 (June 2018): 120 © 2018 The Author(s)
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Abstract
A search is presented for new high-mass resonances decaying into electron or muon pairs. The search uses proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 fb⁻¹. Observations are in agreement with standard model expectations. Upper limits on the product of a new resonance production cross section and branching fraction to dileptons are calculated in a model-independent manner. This permits the interpretation of the limits in models predicting a narrow dielectron or dimuon resonance. A scan of different intrinsic width hypotheses is performed. Limits are set on the masses of various hypothetical particles. For the Z′[subscript SSM](Z′[subscript ψ]) particle, which arises in the sequential standard model (superstring-inspired model), a lower mass limit of 4.50 (3.90) TeV is set at 95% confidence level. The lightest Kaluza-Klein graviton arising in the Randall-Sundrum model of extra dimensions, with coupling parameters k/MPl of 0.01, 0.05, and 0.10, is excluded at 95% confidence level below 2.10, 3.65, and 4.25 TeV, respectively. In a simplified model of dark matter production via a vector or axial vector mediator, limits at 95% confidence level are obtained on the masses of the dark matter particle and its mediator.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)120
