Search for Quantum Black Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass Lepton + Jet Final States Using pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV and the ATLAS Detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
March 2014
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, et al. “Search for Quantum Black Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass Lepton + Jet Final States Using pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV and the ATLAS Detector.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 9 (March 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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Abstract
This Letter presents a search for quantum black-hole production using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of data collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC at √s = 8 TeV. The quantum black holes are assumed to decay into a final state characterized by a lepton (electron or muon) and a jet. In either channel, no event with a lepton-jet invariant mass of 3.5 TeV or more is observed, consistent with the expected background. Limits are set on the product of cross sections and branching fractions for the lepton + jet final states of quantum black holes produced in a search region for invariant masses above 1 TeV. The combined 95% confidence level upper limit on this product for quantum black holes with threshold mass above 3.5 TeV is 0.18 fb. This limit constrains the threshold quantum black-hole mass to be above 5.3 TeV in the model considered.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091804
