Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at [square root of] s=7 TeV
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Alver, Burak Han; Bauer, Gerry P.; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Harris, Philip Coleman; Kim, Yongsun; Klute, Markus; Lee, Yen-Jie; Li, Wei; Loizides, Constantin; Lopez, Jeremy Paul; Luckey, P. David, Jr.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Roland, Christof E.; Roland, Gunther M.; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sumorok, Konstanty C.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Wenger, Edward Allen; Xie, Si; Yang, Mingming; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, Andre S.; Zanetti, Marco; ... Show more Show less
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Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
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A search for quark compositeness in the form of quark contact interactions, based on hadronic jet pairs (dijets) produced in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 [square root of s=7] TeV, is described. The data sample of the study corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 pb-1 [pb superscript -1] collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The dijet centrality ratio, which quantifies the angular distribution of the dijets, is measured as a function of the invariant mass of the dijet system and is found to agree with the predictions of the standard model. A statistical analysis of the data provides a lower limit on the energy scale of quark contact interactions. The sensitivity of the analysis is such that the expected limit is 2.9 TeV; because the observed value of the centrality ratio at high invariant mass is below the expectation, the observed limit is 4.0 TeV at the 95% confidence level.
Date issued
2010-12Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical review letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
V. Khachatryan et al. "Search for Quark Compositeness with the Dijet Centrality Ratio in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV" Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 262001 (2010)© 2010 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration
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0031-9007