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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in dilepton events from pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Atlas CollaborationSusana Cabrera UrbánMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezMaría José Costa MezquitaFarida FassiAntonio Ferrer SoriaLuca FioriniJuan A. Fuster VerdúCarmen García GarcíaJosé Enrique García NavarroSantiago González De La HozYesenia Hernández JiménezEmilio Higón RodríguezAdrián Irles QuilesMohammed KaciCarlos Lacasta LlácerVicente Lacuesta MiquelLuis March RuizSalvador Martí GarcíaMercedes Miñano MoyaVasiliki MitsouRegina Moles VallsMaría Moreno LlácerElena Oliver GarcíaSebastián Pedraza LópezMaría Teresa Pérez García-estañEduardo Ros MartínezEduardo Ros MartínezJosé Salt CairolsVictoria Sánchez MartínezCarlos Antonio Solans SánchezU. SoldevilaJavier Sánchez MartínezEmma Torró PastorAlberto Valero BiotE. Valladolid GallegoJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMiguel Villaplana PérezMarcel Vossubject
High Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nucleardescription
A search for non-resonant 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 sqrt(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 mu+mu- channels, respectively. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed. Using a Bayesian approach, 95% confidence limit 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 combination of these limits with results from a similar search in the diphoton channel, slightly more stringent limits are obtained.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-01 |