Search for Low-Mass Quark-Antiquark Resonances Produced in Association with a Photon at √ s = 13 TeV
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PhysRevLett.123.231803.pdf
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The CMS Collaboration
Abercrombie, Daniel Robert
Allen, Branden
Baty, Austin Alan
Bi, Ran
Brandt, Stephanie Akemi
Busza, Wit
Cali, Ivan Amos
D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Final published version
Abstract
© 2019 CERN. for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. A search for narrow low-mass resonances decaying to quark-antiquark pairs is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision events collected at 13 TeV by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb-1, recorded in 2016. The search considers the case where the resonance has high transverse momentum due to initial-state radiation of a hard photon. To study this process, the decay products of the resonance are reconstructed as a single large-radius jet with two-pronged substructure. The signal would be identified as a localized excess in the jet invariant mass spectrum. No evidence for such a resonance is observed in the mass range 10 to 125 GeV. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the coupling strength of resonances decaying to quark pairs. The results obtained with this photon trigger strategy provide the first direct constraints on quark-antiquark resonance masses below 50 GeV obtained at a hadron collider.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.231803
