Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector
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Taylor, Frank E.
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This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonant states in photon+jet events in 2.11 fb[superscript -1] of proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV. We compare the photon+jet mass distribution to a background model derived from data and find consistency with the background-only hypothesis. Given the lack of evidence for a signal, we set 95% credibility level limits on generic Gaussian-shaped signals and on a benchmark excited-quark (q*) model, excluding 2 TeV Gaussian resonances with cross section times branching fraction times acceptance times efficiency near 5 fb and excluding q* masses below 2.46 TeV, respectively.
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2012-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
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G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration). "Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector" Physical Review Letters 108, 211802 (2012). © 2012 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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0031-9007
1079-7114