Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2013) Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 88 (7): 072001. ISSN 1550-7998

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Abstract

A search is presented for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state in proton–proton collisions at √s=8  TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3  fb-1. Using a high track multiplicity requirement, 0.6±0.2 background events from Standard Model processes are predicted and none observed. This result is interpreted in the context of low-scale gravity models and 95% C.L. lower limits on microscopic black hole masses are set for different model assumptions.

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Physical Review D
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Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2013 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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27 Nov 2013 11:51
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