Search for large extra spatial dimensions in dimuon production with the d0 detector.
Phys Rev Lett 95:16 (2005) 161602
Authors:
VM Abazov, B Abbott, M Abolins, BS Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, J-L Agram, SH Ahn, M Ahsan, GD Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, GA Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, Y Arnoud, A Askew, B Asman, ACS Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, PW Balm, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, JF Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, S Beauceron, M Begalli, M Begel, A Bellavance, SB Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, VA Bezzubov, PC Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, KM Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, TA Bolton, F Borcherding, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, NJ Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, TH Burnett, E Busato, CP Buszello, JM Butler, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, BCK Casey, NM Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, KM Chan, A Chandra, D Chapin, F Charles, E Cheu, DK Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, T Christiansen, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, WE Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, A Cothenet, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, H da Motta, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, GA Davis, K De, P de Jong, SJ de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, S Dean, JD Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, SP Denisov, S Desai, HT Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, H Dong, S Doulas, LV Dudko, L Duflot, SR Dugad, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, VD Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, OV Eroshin, J Estrada, H Evans, A Evdokimov, VN Evdokimov, J Fast, SN Fatakia, L Feligioni, AV Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, HE Fisk, I Fleck, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, CF Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, K Genser, CE Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, T Golling, N Gollub, B Gómez, K Gounder, A Goussiou, PD Grannis, S Greder, H Greenlee, ZD Greenwood, EM Gregores, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, L Groer, S Grünendahl, MW Grünewald, SN Gurzhiev, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, NJ Hadley, S Hagopian, I Hall, RE Hall, C Han, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, JM Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, JM Heinmiller, AP Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, G Hesketh, MD Hildreth, R Hirosky, JD Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, SJ Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, J Huang, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, AS Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, V Jain, K Jakobs, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D Käfer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, AM Kalinin, J Kalk, D Karmanov, J Kasper, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, S Kesisoglou, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, YM Kharzheev, H Kim, TJ Kim, B Klima, JM Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, VM Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, AV Kozelov, J Kozminski, A Kryemadhi, S Krzywdzinski, Y Kulik, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, S Lager, N Lahrichi, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, WM Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, C Leonidopoulos, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, QZ Li, JGR Lima, D Lincoln, SL Linn, J Linnemann, VV Lipaev, R Lipton, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, HJ Lubatti, L Lueking, M Lynker, AL Lyon, AKA Maciel, RJ Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, PK Mal, HB Malbouisson, S Malik, VL Malyshev, HS Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, SEK Mattingly, AA Mayorov, R McCarthy, R McCroskey, D Meder, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, M Merkin, KW Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, J Mitrevski, J Molina, NK Mondal, RW Moore, T Moulik, GS Muanza, M Mulders, L Mundim, YD Mutaf, E Nagy, M Narain, NA Naumann, HA Neal, JP Negret, S Nelson, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, SF Novaes, T Nunnemann, E Nurse, V O'dell, DC O'neil, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, GJ Otero Y Garzón, P Padley, N Parashar, SK Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, PM Perea, E Perez, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, M-A Pleier, PLM Podesta-Lerma, VM Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, BG Pope, WL Prado da Silva, HB Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, KJ Rani, K Ranjan, PA Rapidis, PN Ratoff, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, RF Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, VI Rud, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, MP Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, RD Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, AA Shchukin, WD Shephard, RK Shivpuri, D Shpakov, RA Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, RP Smith, K Smolek, GR Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, NR Stanton, J Stark, J Steele, K Stevenson, V Stolin, A Stone, DA Stoyanova, J Strandberg, MA Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, M Titov, M Tomoto, T Toole, J Torborg, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, AS Turcot, PM Tuts, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, PJ van den Berg, R Van Kooten, WM van Leeuwen, N Varelas, EW Varnes, A Vartapetian, IA Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, LS Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Vreeswijk, T Vu Anh, HD Wahl, L Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, V White, D Wicke, DA Wijngaarden, GW Wilson, SJ Wimpenny, J Wittlin, M Wobisch, J Womersley, DR Wood, TR Wyatt, Q Xu, N Xuan, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, YA Yatsunenko, Y Yen, K Yip, HD Yoo, SW Youn, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zabi, A Zatserklyaniy, M Zdrazil, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, X Zhang, T Zhao, Z Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, R Zitoun, V Zutshi, EG Zverev, DO Collaboration
Abstract:
We present the results of a search for the effects of large extra spatial dimensions in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV in events containing a pair of energetic muons. The data correspond to 246 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Good agreement with the expected background was found, yielding no evidence for large extra dimensions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale between 0.85 and 1.27 TeV within several formalisms. These are the most stringent limits achieved in the dimuon channel to date.
