TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for physics beyond the standard model in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at √s=8TeV
AU - The CMS Collaboration
AU - Khachatryan, V.
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Erö, J.
AU - Fabjan, C.
AU - Friedl, M.
AU - Frühwirth, R.
AU - Ghete, V. M.
AU - Hartl, C.
AU - Hörmann, N.
AU - Hrubec, J.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Kiesenhofer, W.
AU - Knünz, V.
AU - Krammer, M.
AU - Krätschmer, I.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Rabady, D.
AU - Rahbaran, B.
AU - Rohringer, H.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Strauss, J.
AU - Taurok, A.
AU - Treberer-Treberspurg, W.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Mossolov, V.
AU - Shumeiko, N.
AU - Suarez Gonzalez, J.
AU - Alderweireldt, S.
AU - Bansal, M.
AU - Bansal, S.
AU - Cornelis, T.
AU - De Wolf, E. A.
AU - Janssen, X.
AU - Knutsson, A.
AU - Luyckx, S.
AU - Ochesanu, S.
AU - Rougny, R.
AU - Van De Klundert, M.
AU - Van Haevermaet, H.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Choi, S.
AU - Hong, B.
AU - Park, S. K.
AU - Yoo, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, The Author(s).
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - Abstract: Dimuon and dielectron mass spectra, obtained from data resulting from proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV and recorded by the CMS experiment, are used to search for both narrow resonances and broad deviations from standard model predictions. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.6 (19.7) fb−1 for the dimuon (dielectron) channel. No evidence for non-standard-model physics is observed and 95% confidence level limits are set on parameters from a number of new physics models. The narrow resonance analyses exclude a Sequential Standard Model ZSSM ′ resonance lighter than 2.90 TeV, a superstring-inspired Zψ ′ lighter than 2.57 TeV, and Randall-Sundrum Kaluza-Klein gravitons with masses below 2.73, 2.35, and 1.27 TeV for couplings of 0.10, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively. A notable feature is that the limits have been calculated in a model-independent way to enable straightforward reinterpretation in any model predicting a resonance structure. The observed events are also interpreted within the framework of two non-resonant analyses: one based on a large extra dimensions model and one based on a quark and lepton compositeness model with a left-left isoscalar contact interaction. Lower limits are established on MS, the scale characterizing the onset of quantum gravity, which range from 4.9 to 3.3 TeV, where the number of additional spatial dimensions varies from 3 to 7. Similarly, lower limits on Λ, the energy scale parameter for the contact interaction, are found to be 12.0 (15.2) TeV for destructive (constructive) interference in the dimuon channel and 13.5 (18.3) TeV in the dielectron channel.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - Abstract: Dimuon and dielectron mass spectra, obtained from data resulting from proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV and recorded by the CMS experiment, are used to search for both narrow resonances and broad deviations from standard model predictions. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.6 (19.7) fb−1 for the dimuon (dielectron) channel. No evidence for non-standard-model physics is observed and 95% confidence level limits are set on parameters from a number of new physics models. The narrow resonance analyses exclude a Sequential Standard Model ZSSM ′ resonance lighter than 2.90 TeV, a superstring-inspired Zψ ′ lighter than 2.57 TeV, and Randall-Sundrum Kaluza-Klein gravitons with masses below 2.73, 2.35, and 1.27 TeV for couplings of 0.10, 0.05, and 0.01, respectively. A notable feature is that the limits have been calculated in a model-independent way to enable straightforward reinterpretation in any model predicting a resonance structure. The observed events are also interpreted within the framework of two non-resonant analyses: one based on a large extra dimensions model and one based on a quark and lepton compositeness model with a left-left isoscalar contact interaction. Lower limits are established on MS, the scale characterizing the onset of quantum gravity, which range from 4.9 to 3.3 TeV, where the number of additional spatial dimensions varies from 3 to 7. Similarly, lower limits on Λ, the energy scale parameter for the contact interaction, are found to be 12.0 (15.2) TeV for destructive (constructive) interference in the dimuon channel and 13.5 (18.3) TeV in the dielectron channel.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - Beyond Standard Model
KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
KW - Particle and resonance production
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85000766356&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)025
DO - 10.1007/JHEP04(2015)025
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85000766356
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2015
SP - 1
EP - 49
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 4
M1 - 25
ER -