Dijet azimuthal decorrelations in pp collisions at √s=7TeV
Physical Review Letters 106:12 (2011)
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Measurements of dijet azimuthal decorrelations in pp collisions at √s=7TeV using the CMS detector at the CERN LHC are presented. The analysis is based on an inclusive dijet event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9pb-1. The results are compared to predictions from perturbative QCD calculations and various Monte Carlo event generators. The dijet azimuthal distributions are found to be sensitive to initial-state gluon radiation. © 2011 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration.Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Final State at the Large Hadron Collider
ArXiv 1103.4279 (2011)
Search for high mass resonances decaying to Muon pairs in √s=1.96TeV pp̄ collisions
Physical Review Letters 106:12 (2011)
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We present a search for a new narrow, spin-1, high mass resonance decaying to μ+μ-+X, using a matrix-element-based likelihood and a simultaneous measurement of the resonance mass and production rate. In data with 4.6fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF detector in pp̄ collisions at √s=1960GeV, the most likely signal cross section is consistent with zero at 16% confidence level. We therefore do not observe evidence for a high mass resonance and place limits on models predicting spin-1 resonances, including M>1071GeV/c2 at 95% confidence level for a Z′ boson with the same couplings to fermions as the Z boson. © 2011 American Physical Society.Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 697:5 (2011) 434-453
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A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1. Events with large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple high-energy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities and model-independent limits on new physics in these final states are set. Using simple semi-classical approximation, limits on the minimum black hole mass are derived as well, in the range 3.5-4.5 TeV. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator. © 2011 CERN.Measurement of the B+ production cross section in pp collisions at √s=7TeV
Physical Review Letters 106:11 (2011)