Search for physics beyond the standard model in the high-mass diphoton spectrum at 13 TeV13~\mathrm{TeV}

Collaboration
2018
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-EXO-17-017
Experiments:

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Abstract:
A search is performed for physics beyond the standard model in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV}, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb135.9~\mathrm{fb}^{-1}, delivered in 2016 to the CMS detector by the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Both resonant and nonresonant new physics signatures are searched for, using different techniques to estimate the background. Constraints are placed on the mass of the first graviton excitation in the Randall--Sundrum warped extra dimension model in the range of 22 to 4 TeV4~\mathrm{TeV}, for values of the associated coupling parameter between 0.010.01 and 0.20.2. Limits on the production of scalar resonances and model-independent fiducial cross section upper limits are also provided. For the large extra dimension model of Arkani--Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali, lower limits are set on the ultraviolet cutoff scale MSM_S ranging from 5.65.6 to 9.7 TeV9.7~\mathrm{TeV}, depending on the model parameters. Limits are also set on the continuum clockwork mechanism.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • p p: colliding beams
  • photon: pair production
  • new physics: search for
  • model: higher-dimensional
  • space-time: higher-dimensional
  • channel cross section: upper limit
  • graviton: excited state
  • graviton: Kaluza-Klein
  • new physics: signature