Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at √ s = 7TeV
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Chatrchyan2012_Article_SearchForMicroscopicBlackHoles.pdf
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The CMS Collaboration
Date Issued
2012
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Chatrchyan, S., et al. "Search for Microscopic Black Holes in Pp Collisions at v S = 7 Tev." Journal of High Energy Physics 2012 4 (2012).
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Final published version
Abstract
A search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. Events with large total transverse energy have been analyzed for the presence of multiple energetic jets, leptons, and photons, which are typical signals of evaporating semiclassical and quantum black holes, and string balls. Agreement with the expected standard model backgrounds, which are dominated by QCD multijet production, has been observed for various combined multiplicities of jets and other reconstructed objects in the final state. Model-independent limits are set on new physics processes producing high-multiplicity, energetic final states. In addition, new model-specific indicative limits are set excluding semiclassical and quantum black holes with masses below 3.8 to 5.3TeV and string balls with masses below 4.6 to 4.8TeV . The analysis has a substantially increased sensitivity compared to previous searches.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2012)061
