Search for quantum black hole production in high-invariant-mass lepton plus jet final states using pp collisions at root s=8 TeV and the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2014) Search for quantum black hole production in high-invariant-mass lepton plus jet final states using pp collisions at root s=8 TeV and the ATLAS detector. Physical review letters, 112 (9): 091804. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

This Letter presents a search for quantum black-hole production using 20.3 fb(-1) of data collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC at root s = 8 TeV. The quantum black holes are assumed to decay into a final state characterized by a lepton (electron or muon) and a jet. In either channel, no event with a lepton-jet invariant mass of 3.5 TeV or more is observed, consistent with the expected background. Limits are set on the product of cross sections and branching fractions for the lepton + jet final states of quantum black holes produced in a search region for invariant masses above 1 TeV. The combined 95% confidence level upper limit on this product for quantum black holes with threshold mass above 3.5 TeV is 0.18 fb. This limit constrains the threshold quantum black-hole mass to be above 5.3 TeV in the model considered.

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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. © 2014 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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69469
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20 May 2014 23:09
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