Dragicevic, M and Choudhury, S and Komaragiri, JR and Tiwari, PC (2018) Search for black holes and sphalerons in high-multiplicity final states in proton-proton collisions a root s=13 TeVt. In: Journal of High Energy Physics .
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Abstract
A search in energetic, high-multiplicity final states for evidence of physics beyond the standard model, such as black holes, string balls, and electroweak sphalerons, is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb(-1) collected with the CMS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016. Standard model backgrounds, dominated by multijet production, are determined from control regions in data without any reliance on simulation. No evidence for excesses above the predicted background is observed. Model-independent 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section of beyond the standard model signals in these final states are set and further interpreted in terms of limits on semiclassical black hole, string ball, and sphaleron production. In the context of models with large extra dimensions, semiclassical black holes with minimum masses as high as 10.1 TeV and string balls with masses as high as 9.5 TeV are excluded by this search. Results of the first dedicated search for electroweak sphalerons are presented. An upper limit of 0.021 is set at 95% confidence level on the fraction of all quark-quark interactions above the nominal threshold energy of 9 TeV resulting in the sphaleron transition.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Publisher: | SPRINGER |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to SPRINGER |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering) |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2019 12:35 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2019 12:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61426 |
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