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Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=8 and 13 TeV

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Abercrombie, Daniel Robert; Allen, Brandon Leigh; Apyan, Aram; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; Baty, Austin Alan; Bi, Ran; Bierwagen, Katharina; Brandt, Stephanie Akemi; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Demiragli, Zeynep; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hsu, Dylan George; Iiyama, Yutaro; Innocenti, Gian Michele; Klute, Markus; Kovalskyi, Dmytro; Krajczar, Krisztian F.; Lai, Yue Shi; Lee, Yen-Jie; Levin, Andrew Michael; Luckey Jr, P David; Marini, Andrea Carlo; McGinn, Christopher Francis; Mironov, Camelia Maria; Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan; Niu, Xinmei; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry; Stephans, George S. F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Tatar, Kaya; Varma, Mukund Madhav; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wang, J.; Wang, Ta-Wei; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
A search for the resonant production of high-mass photon pairs is presented. The analysis is based on samples of proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.7 and 3.3 fb[superscript −1], respectively. The interpretation of the search results focuses on spin-0 and spin-2 resonances with masses between 0.5 and 4 TeV and with widths, relative to the mass, between 1.4 × 10[superscript −4] and 5.6 × 10[superscript −2]. Limits are set on scalar resonances produced through gluon-gluon fusion, and on Randall-Sundrum gravitons. A modest excess of events compatible with a narrow resonance with a mass of about 750 GeV is observed. The local significance of the excess is approximately 3.4 standard deviations. The significance is reduced to 1.6 standard deviations once the effect of searching under multiple signal hypotheses is considered. More data are required to determine the origin of this excess.
Date issued
2016-07
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105920
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Khachatryan, V. et al. “Search for Resonant Production of High-Mass Photon Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at √S = 8 and 13 TeV.” Physical Review Letters 117.5 (2016): n. pag. © 2016 American Physical Society
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1079-7114

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