Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton mass spectra from proton-proton collisions at s=\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV

Collaboration
Dec 26, 2018
35 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2019) 114
  • Published: Apr 17, 2019
e-Print:
DOI:
Report number:
  • CMS-EXO-17-025,
  • CERN-EP-2018-326
Experiments:

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Abstract: (Springer)
A search for nonresonant excesses in the invariant mass spectra of electron and muon pairs is presented. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment in 2016, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 36 fb1^{−1}. No significant deviation from the standard model is observed. Limits are set at 95% confidence level on energy scales for two general classes of nonresonant models. For a class of fermion contact interaction models, lower limits ranging from 20 to 32 TeV are set on the characteristic compositeness scale Λ. For the Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali model of large extra dimensions, the first results in the dilepton final state at 13 TeV are reported, and values of the ultraviolet cutoff parameter ΛT_{T} below 6.9 TeV are excluded. A combination with recent CMS diphoton results improves this exclusion to ΛT_{T} below 7.7 TeV, providing the most sensitive limits to date in nonhadronic final states.
Note:
  • Beyond Standard Model
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • p p: scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • dilepton: mass spectrum
  • dimuon: mass spectrum
  • mass spectrum: (muon+ muon-)
  • dilepton: final state
  • mass spectrum: (electron positron)
  • electron: pair production