Search for extra dimensions using diphoton events in 7 TeV proton–proton collisions with the ATLAS detector
Using data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a search for evidence of extra spatial dimensions has been performed through an analysis of the diphoton final state. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.12 fb<sup>-1</sup>...
| Autores: | , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Repositorio: | SEDICI (UNLP) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/80305 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/80305 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ciencias Exactas Física Fotones proton-proton collisions ATLAS detector |
| Sumario: | Using data recorded in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a search for evidence of extra spatial dimensions has been performed through an analysis of the diphoton final state. The analysis uses data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.12 fb<sup>-1</sup> of √s = 7 TeV proton– proton collisions. The diphoton invariant mass (m<sub>γγ</sub>) spectrum is observed to be in good agreement with the expected Standard Model background. In the large extra dimension scenario of Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali, the results provide 95% CL lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale between 2.27 and 3.53 TeV, depending on the number of extra dimensions and the theoretical formalism used. The results also set 95% CL lower limits on the lightest Randall–Sundrum graviton mass of between 0.79 and 1.85 TeV, for values of the dimensionless coupling k/M<sub>Pl</sub> varying from 0.01 to 0.1. Combining with previously published ATLAS results from the dielectron and dimuon final states, the 95% CL lower limit on the Randall–Sundrum graviton mass for k/M<sub>Pl</sub> = 0.01 (0.1) is 0.80 (1.95) TeV. |
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