Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
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Bendavid, Joshua L.
Butz, Erik M.
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Hahn, Kristian Allan
Kim, Y.
Date Issued
February 2011
Journal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Khachatryan, V., A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider.” Physics Letters B 697, no. 5 (March 2011): 434–453. © 2011 CERN
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A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1]. Events with large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple high-energy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities and model-independent limits on new physics in these final states are set. Using simple semi-classical approximation, limits on the minimum black hole mass are derived as well, in the range 3.5–4.5 TeV. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.032
