Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1]. Events with large total transverse energy are...
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| author | Bendavid, Joshua L. Butz, Erik M. Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Chan, M. Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hahn, Kristian Allan Kim, Y. Klute, Markus Li, W. Nahn, Steven Ma, Teng Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Rudolph, Matthew Scott Stephans, George S. F. Sung, Kevin Kai Hong Wenger, Edward Allen Yilmaz, Yetkin Yoon, A. S. Zanetti, Marco Wyslouch, Boleslaw Alver, Burak Han Harris, Philip Coleman Luckey Jr, P David Roland, Gunther M Xie, Si Bauer, Gerry P Dutta, Valentina Lee, Yen-Jie Loizides, Constantinos Roland, Christof E Sumorok, Konstanty C Yang, Mingming |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Bendavid, Joshua L. Butz, Erik M. Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Chan, M. Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hahn, Kristian Allan Kim, Y. Klute, Markus Li, W. Nahn, Steven Ma, Teng Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Rudolph, Matthew Scott Stephans, George S. F. Sung, Kevin Kai Hong Wenger, Edward Allen Yilmaz, Yetkin Yoon, A. S. Zanetti, Marco Wyslouch, Boleslaw Alver, Burak Han Harris, Philip Coleman Luckey Jr, P David Roland, Gunther M Xie, Si Bauer, Gerry P Dutta, Valentina Lee, Yen-Jie Loizides, Constantinos Roland, Christof E Sumorok, Konstanty C Yang, Mingming |
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| description | A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1]. Events with large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple high-energy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities and model-independent limits on new physics in these final states are set. Using simple semi-classical approximation, limits on the minimum black hole mass are derived as well, in the range 3.5–4.5 TeV. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/925692023-02-26T10:46:49Z Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider Bendavid, Joshua L. Butz, Erik M. Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Chan, M. Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hahn, Kristian Allan Kim, Y. Klute, Markus Li, W. Nahn, Steven Ma, Teng Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Rudolph, Matthew Scott Stephans, George S. F. Sung, Kevin Kai Hong Wenger, Edward Allen Yilmaz, Yetkin Yoon, A. S. Zanetti, Marco Wyslouch, Boleslaw Alver, Burak Han Harris, Philip Coleman Luckey Jr, P David Roland, Gunther M Xie, Si Bauer, Gerry P Dutta, Valentina Lee, Yen-Jie Loizides, Constantinos Roland, Christof E Sumorok, Konstanty C Yang, Mingming Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science Alver, B. Bauer, Gerry P. Bendavid, Joshua L. Butz, Erik M. Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Chan, M. Dutta, V. Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hahn, Kristian Allan Harris, P. Kim, Y. Klute, Markus Lee, Y.-J. Li, W. Loizides, C. Luckey, P. David, Jr. Ma, Teng Nahn, Steven Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Roland, Christof E. Roland, Gunther M. Rudolph, Matthew Scott Stephans, George S. F. Sumorok, Konstanty C. Sung, Kevin Kai Hong Wenger, Edward Allen Xie, S. Yang, M. Yilmaz, Yetkin Yoon, A. S. Zanetti, Marco Wyslouch, Boleslaw A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb[superscript −1]. Events with large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple high-energy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities and model-independent limits on new physics in these final states are set. Using simple semi-classical approximation, limits on the minimum black hole mass are derived as well, in the range 3.5–4.5 TeV. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator. European Organization for Nuclear Research National Science Foundation (U.S.) United States. Dept. of Energy 2014-12-31T19:34:28Z 2014-12-31T19:34:28Z 2011-02 2011-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 03702693 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92569 Khachatryan, V., A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, J. Erö, et al. “Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider.” Physics Letters B 697, no. 5 (March 2011): 434–453. © 2011 CERN https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3831-9071 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3106-4894 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-5839 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8983-2169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-0649 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-7767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0869-5631 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.02.032 Physics Letters B Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf Elsevier Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | Bendavid, Joshua L. Butz, Erik M. Busza, Wit Cali, Ivan Amos Chan, M. Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Goncharov, Maxim Hahn, Kristian Allan Kim, Y. Klute, Markus Li, W. Nahn, Steven Ma, Teng Paus, Christoph M. E. Ralph, Duncan Kelley Rudolph, Matthew Scott Stephans, George S. F. Sung, Kevin Kai Hong Wenger, Edward Allen Yilmaz, Yetkin Yoon, A. S. Zanetti, Marco Wyslouch, Boleslaw Alver, Burak Han Harris, Philip Coleman Luckey Jr, P David Roland, Gunther M Xie, Si Bauer, Gerry P Dutta, Valentina Lee, Yen-Jie Loizides, Constantinos Roland, Christof E Sumorok, Konstanty C Yang, Mingming Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title | Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title_full | Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title_fullStr | Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title_short | Search for microscopic black hole signatures at the Large Hadron Collider |
| title_sort | search for microscopic black hole signatures at the large hadron collider |
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