A search is presented for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state in proton-proton collisions at ?????????s=8 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1. Using a high track multiplicity requirement, 0.6??????0.2 background events from Standard Model processes are predicted and none observed. This result is interpreted in the context of low-scale gravity models and 95% C.L. lower limits on microscopic black hole masses are set for different model assumptions. ?????? 2013 CERN. 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.
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G.; Aloisio, Alberto; Alviggi, Mariagrazia; Canale, Vincenzo; Cevenini, Francesco; Chiefari, Giovanni; DELLA VOLPE, Domenico; Merola, Leonardo; Patricelli, Sergio; Conventi, Francesco; DELLA PIETRA, Massimo; Giordano, Raffaele; Musto, Elisa; Rossi, Elvira; SANCHEZ PINEDA, ARTURO RODOLFO; Carlino, Gianpaolo; de Asmundis, Riccardo; Di Donato, Camilla; Doria, Alessandra; Iengo, Paolo; Izzo, Vincenzo; Sekhniaidze, Givi; Zurzolo, Giovanni; Al, e. t. .. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 88:(2013), pp. 072001-072022. [10.1103/PhysRevD.88.072001]
Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector
ALOISIO, ALBERTO;ALVIGGI, MARIAGRAZIA;CANALE, VINCENZO;CHIEFARI, GIOVANNI;DELLA VOLPE, DOMENICO;MEROLA, LEONARDO;PATRICELLI, SERGIO;DELLA PIETRA, MASSIMO;GIORDANO, RAFFAELE;Rossi, Elvira;SANCHEZ PINEDA, ARTURO RODOLFO;ZURZOLO, GIOVANNI;
2013
Abstract
A search is presented for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state in proton-proton collisions at ?????????s=8 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1. Using a high track multiplicity requirement, 0.6??????0.2 background events from Standard Model processes are predicted and none observed. This result is interpreted in the context of low-scale gravity models and 95% C.L. lower limits on microscopic black hole masses are set for different model assumptions. ?????? 2013 CERN. 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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
