Search for Contact Interactions Using the Inclusive Jet pTp_T Spectrum in pppp Collisions at s=7\sqrt{s} = 7 TeV

Collaboration
Jan 21, 2013
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 87 (2013) 5, 052017
  • Published: Mar 26, 2013
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CMS-EXO-11-010,
  • CERN-PH-EP-2013-002
Experiments:

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Abstract: (APS)
Results are reported of a search for a deviation in the jet production cross section from the prediction of perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading order. The search is conducted using a 7 TeV proton-proton data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0  fb-1, collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A deviation could arise from interactions characterized by a mass scale Λ too high to be probed directly at the LHC. Such phenomena can be modeled as contact interactions. No evidence of a deviation is found. Using the CLs criterion, lower limits are set on Λ of 9.9 TeV and 14.3 TeV at 95% confidence level for models with destructive and constructive interference, respectively. Limits obtained with a Bayesian method are also reported.
Note:
  • Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DOI
  • 13.85.Rm
  • jet: hadroproduction
  • transverse momentum: momentum spectrum
  • mass: scale
  • p p: inclusive reaction
  • higher-order: 1
  • contact interaction
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • interference