Search for new phenomena in dijet events using 37 fb1^{-1} of pppp collision data collected at s=\sqrt{s}=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Collaboration
Mar 27, 2017
42 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 96 (2017) 5, 052004
  • Published: Sep 28, 2017
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-EP-2017-042
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Abstract: (APS)
Dijet events are studied in the proton-proton collision data set recorded at s=13  TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2016, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 3.5  fb−1 and 33.5  fb−1 respectively. Invariant mass and angular distributions are compared to background predictions and no significant deviation is observed. For resonance searches, a new method for fitting the background component of the invariant mass distribution is employed. The data set is then used to set upper limits at a 95% confidence level on a range of new physics scenarios. Excited quarks with masses below 6.0 TeV are excluded, and limits are set on quantum black holes, heavy W′ bosons, W* bosons, and a range of masses and couplings in a Z′ dark matter mediator model. Model-independent limits on signals with a Gaussian shape are also set, using a new approach allowing factorization of physics and detector effects. From the angular distributions, a scale of new physics in contact interaction models is excluded for scenarios with either constructive or destructive interference. These results represent a substantial improvement over those obtained previously with lower integrated luminosity.
Note:
  • p p: colliding beams
  • dark matter: mediation
  • black hole: quantum
  • scale: new physics
  • p p: scattering
  • jet: angular distribution
  • background
  • ATLAS
  • dijet: hadroproduction
  • contact interaction