Search for signatures of extra dimensions in the diphoton mass spectrum at the large hadron collider
Physical Review Letters 108:11 (2012)
Abstract:
A search for signatures of extra spatial dimensions in the diphoton invariant-mass spectrum has been performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed using a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at √s=7TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2fb -1. In the context of the large-extra-dimensions model, lower limits are set on the effective Planck scale in the range of 2.3-3.8TeV at the 95% confidence level. These limits are the most restrictive bounds on virtual-graviton exchange to date. The most restrictive lower limits to date are also set on the mass of the first graviton excitation in the Randall-Sundrum model in the range of 0.86-1.84TeV, for values of the associated coupling parameter between 0.01 and 0.10. © 2012 CERN, for the LHCb Collaboration. 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 articles title, journal citation, and DOI.Measurement of ZZ Production in Leptonic Final States at s of 1.96 TeV at CDF
Physical Review Letters American Physical Society (APS) 108:10 (2012) 101801
Measurement of the polarisation of W bosons produced with large transverse momentum in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment
ArXiv 1203.2165 (2012)
Measurement of ZZ production in leptonic final states at √s of 1.96 TeV at CDF
Physical Review Letters 108:10 (2012)
Abstract:
In this Letter, we present a precise measurement of the total ZZ production cross section in pp̄ collisions at √s=1.96TeV, using data collected with the CDF II detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 6fb-1. The result is obtained by combining separate measurements in the four-charged (′′) and two-charged-lepton and two-neutral-lepton (νν) decay modes of the Z boson pair. The combined measured cross section for pp̄→ZZ is 1.64-0.38+0.44pb. This is the most precise measurement of the ZZ production cross section in 1.96 TeV pp̄ collisions to date. © 2012 American Physical Society.Search for a light Higgs boson decaying to long-lived weakly-interacting particles in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
ArXiv 1203.1303 (2012)