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Search for microscopic black holes and string balls in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at s = 8 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics, Springer Nature, ISSN 1126-6708
Volume 2014, 8, 2014
DOI:10.1007/jhep08(2014)103, Dimensions: pub.1007142758,
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A search for an excess of events with multiple high transverse momentum objects including charged leptons and jets is presented, using 20.3 fb−1 of proton-proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 at a centre-of-mass energy of s = 8 TeV. No excess of events beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. Using extra-dimensional models for black hole and string ball production and decay, exclusion contours are determined as a function of the mass threshold for production and the fundamental gravity scale for two, four and six extra dimensions. For six extra dimensions, mass thresholds of 4.8-6.2 TeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level, depending on the fundamental gravity scale and model assumptions. Upper limits on the fiducial cross-sections for non-Standard Model production of these final states are set.
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