Search for new physics in the dijet mass distribution using 1 fb[superscript −1] of pp collision data at √s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector

Invariant mass distributions of jet pairs (dijets) produced in LHC proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 7 TeV have been studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript -1] recorded in 2011 by ATLAS. Dijet masses up to ∼4 TeV are observed i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Taylor, Frank E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92004
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7586-7253
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Summary:Invariant mass distributions of jet pairs (dijets) produced in LHC proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 7 TeV have been studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb[superscript -1] recorded in 2011 by ATLAS. Dijet masses up to ∼4 TeV are observed in the data, and no evidence of resonance production over background is found. Limits are set at 95% C.L. for several new physics hypotheses: excited quarks are excluded for masses below 299 TeV, axigluons are excluded for masses below 3.32 TeV, and colour octet scalar resonances are excluded for masses below 1.92 TeV.