Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton mass spectra from proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Collaboration
35 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 04 (2019) 114
- Published: Apr 17, 2019
e-Print:
- 1812.10443 [hep-ex]
DOI:
- 10.1007/JHEP04(2019)114 (publication)
Report number:
- CMS-EXO-17-025,
- CERN-EP-2018-326
Experiments:
Citations per year
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 fb. 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 Λ below 6.9 TeV are excluded. A combination with recent CMS diphoton results improves this exclusion to Λ below 7.7 TeV, providing the most sensitive limits to date in nonhadronic final states.Note:
- Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/EXO-17-025 (CMS Public Pages) •
- Submitted to JHEP
- 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
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