Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.015010

Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

iThemba Labs
Department of Physics
University of South Africa
Cadi Ayyad University
Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science Innovation and Research (MAScIR)
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
CERN
University of Freiburg
University of Bonn
University of Oklahoma
ICREA
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Geneva
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Oklahoma State University
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Centre d'Etudes de Saclay
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
AGH University of Krakow
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hampton University
Yale University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Queen Mary University of London
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Brandeis University
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
University of Bern
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Boston University
Stony Brook University
University of Texas at Dallas
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
SUNY Albany
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Victoria BC
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie de Grenoble
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens

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Abstract

A search for nonresonant new phenomena, originating from either contact interactions or large extra spatial dimensions, has been carried out using events with two isolated electrons or muons. These events, produced at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV, were recorded by the ATLAS detector. The data sample, collected throughout 2011, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.9 and 5.0 fb^-1 in the e⁺e ^- and μ⁺μ^- channels, respectively. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed. Using a Bayesian approach, 95% confidence level lower limits ranging from 9.0 to 13.9 TeV are placed on the energy scale of ℓℓqq contact interactions in the left-left isoscalar model. Lower limits ranging from 2.4 to 3.9 TeV are also set on the string scale in large extra dimension models. After combining these limits with results from a similar search in the diphoton channel, slightly more stringent limits are obtained.

Original language	English
Article number	015010
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	87
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.015010
State	Published - Jan 4 2013

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Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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