Search for excited quarks in the γ + jet final state in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
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Apyan, Aram; Busza, Wit; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Di Matteo, Leonardo; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Gulhan, Doga Can; Klute, Markus; Lai, Yue Shi; Ma, Teng; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Veverka, Jan; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Zanetti, Marco; Levin, Andrew Michael; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Yang, Mingming; Wyslouch, Victoria; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; Lee, Yen-Jie; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Barbieri, Richard Alexander; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/92577/Khachatryan-2014-Search%20for%20excited%20q.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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A search for excited quarks decaying into the γ+jet final state is presented. The analysis is based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb[superscript −1] collected by the CMS experiment in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV at the LHC. Events with photons and jets with high transverse momenta are selected and the γ+jetγ+jet invariant mass distribution is studied to search for a resonance peak. The 95% confidence level upper limits on the product of cross section and branching fraction are evaluated as a function of the excited quark mass. Limits on excited quarks are presented as a function of their mass and coupling strength; masses below 3.5 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level for unit couplings to their standard model partners.
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2014-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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V. Khachatryan, et al. “Search for Excited Quarks in the γ + Jet Final State in Proton-proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV.” Physics Letters B 738 (November 2014): 274–293.
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03702693