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Search for high-mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at s =8 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
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Yale University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • University of Bern
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • The University of Tokyo
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • University of Geneva
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • University of Udine
  • The University of Chicago

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Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is used to search for high-mass resonances decaying to dielectron or dimuon final states. Results are presented from an analysis of proton-proton (pp) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 in the dimuon channel. A narrow resonance with Standard Model Z couplings to fermions is excluded at 95% confidence level for masses less than 2.79 TeV in the dielectron channel, 2.53 TeV in the dimuon channel, and 2.90 TeV in the two channels combined. Limits on other model interpretations are also presented, including a grand-unification model based on the E6 gauge group, Z∗ bosons, minimal Z′ models, a spin-2 graviton excitation from Randall-Sundrum models, quantum black holes, and a minimal walking technicolor model with a composite Higgs boson.

Original languageEnglish
Article number052005
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume90
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 19 2014

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