Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at s√=7 TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector

UNSPECIFIED (2012) 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 (21): 211802. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonant states in photon+jet events in 2.11 fb−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.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Physical review letters

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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. © 2012 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3100

Subjects:

?? general physics and astronomyphysics and astronomy(all) ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

68165

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

20 Dec 2013 09:21

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

16 Oct 2024 23:41

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/68165