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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at root s=7 TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector
Atlas CollaborationVasiliki MitsouJuan A. Fuster VerdúAntonio Ferrer SoriaMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezSusana Cabrera UrbánCarmen García GarcíaEmilio Higón RodríguezSalvador Martí GarcíaEduardo Ros MartínezSantiago González De La HozJosé Salt CairolsJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMohammed KaciLuca FioriniYesenia Hernández JiménezCarlos Lacasta LlácerMiguel Villaplana Pérezsubject
Col·lisions (Física nuclear)High Energy Physics::ExperimentPartícules (Física nuclear)Detectors de radiaciódescription
This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonant states in photon + jet events in 2.11 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV. We compare the photon + jet mass distribution to a background model derived from data and find consistency with the background-only hypothesis. Given the lack of evidence for a signal, we set 95% credibility level limits on generic Gaussian-shaped signals and on a benchmark excited-quark (q*) model, excluding 2 TeV Gaussian resonances with cross section times branching fraction times acceptance times efficiency near 5 fb and excluding q* masses below 2.46 TeV, respectively.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-01-01 |