Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV
We present a search for the pair production of a narrow nonstandard-model strongly interacting particle that decays to a pair of quarks or gluons, leading to a final state with four hadronic jets. We consider both nonresonant production via an intermediate gluon as well as resonant production via a...
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author | Aaltonen, T Albin, E Amerio, S Amidei, D Anastassov, A Annovi, A Antos, J Apollinari, G Appel, J Arisawa, T Artikov, A Asaadi, J Ashmanskas, W Auerbach, B Aurisano, A Azfar, F Badgett, W Bae, T Barbaro-Galtieri, A Barnes, V Barnett, B Barria, P Bartos, P Bauce, M Bedeschi, F |
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description | We present a search for the pair production of a narrow nonstandard-model strongly interacting particle that decays to a pair of quarks or gluons, leading to a final state with four hadronic jets. We consider both nonresonant production via an intermediate gluon as well as resonant production via a distinct nonstandard-model intermediate strongly interacting particle. We use data collected by the CDF experiment in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.6 fb -1. We find the data to be consistent with nonresonant production. We report limits on σ(pp̄→jjjj) as a function of the masses of the hypothetical intermediate particles. Upper limits on the production cross sections for nonstandard-model particles in several resonant and nonresonant processes are also derived. © 2013 American Physical Society. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:ff4ac09f-aa83-469f-8931-285d751c825c2022-03-27T13:43:50ZSearch for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeVJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ff4ac09f-aa83-469f-8931-285d751c825cEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2013Aaltonen, TAlbin, EAmerio, SAmidei, DAnastassov, AAnnovi, AAntos, JApollinari, GAppel, JArisawa, TArtikov, AAsaadi, JAshmanskas, WAuerbach, BAurisano, AAzfar, FBadgett, WBae, TBarbaro-Galtieri, ABarnes, VBarnett, BBarria, PBartos, PBauce, MBedeschi, FWe present a search for the pair production of a narrow nonstandard-model strongly interacting particle that decays to a pair of quarks or gluons, leading to a final state with four hadronic jets. We consider both nonresonant production via an intermediate gluon as well as resonant production via a distinct nonstandard-model intermediate strongly interacting particle. We use data collected by the CDF experiment in proton-antiproton collisions at √s=1.96 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 6.6 fb -1. We find the data to be consistent with nonresonant production. We report limits on σ(pp̄→jjjj) as a function of the masses of the hypothetical intermediate particles. Upper limits on the production cross sections for nonstandard-model particles in several resonant and nonresonant processes are also derived. © 2013 American Physical Society. |
spellingShingle | Aaltonen, T Albin, E Amerio, S Amidei, D Anastassov, A Annovi, A Antos, J Apollinari, G Appel, J Arisawa, T Artikov, A Asaadi, J Ashmanskas, W Auerbach, B Aurisano, A Azfar, F Badgett, W Bae, T Barbaro-Galtieri, A Barnes, V Barnett, B Barria, P Bartos, P Bauce, M Bedeschi, F Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title | Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title_full | Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title_fullStr | Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title_full_unstemmed | Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title_short | Search for Pair Production of Strongly Interacting Particles Decaying to Pairs of Jets in p(p)over-bar Collisions at root s=1.96 TeV |
title_sort | search for pair production of strongly interacting particles decaying to pairs of jets in p p over bar collisions at root s 1 96 tev |
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