Search for microscopic black holes and string balls in final states with leptons and jets with the ATLAS detector at √s = 8 TeV

G Aad; B Abbott; J Abdallah; SA Khalek; O Abdinov; R Aben; B Abi; M Abolins; OS Abouzeid; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; R Abreu; Y Abulaiti; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; J Adelman; S Adomeit; T Adye; T Agatonovic-Jovin; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Agustoni; SP Ahlen; F Ahmadov; G Aielli; H Akerstedt; TPA Åkesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; GL Alberghi; J Albert; S Albrand; MJ Alconada Verzini; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; G Alimonti; L Alio; J Alison; BMM Allbrooke; LJ Allison; PP Allport; J Almond; A Aloisio; A Alonso; F Alonso; C Alpigiani; A Altheimer; B Alvarez Gonzalez; MG Alviggi; K Amako; Y Amaral Coutinho; C Amelung; D Amidei; SP Amor Dos Santos; A Amorim; S Amoroso; N Amram; G Amundsen; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; XS Anduaga; S Angelidakis; I Angelozzi; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; AV Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; M Aoki; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; JP Araque; ATH Arce; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; M Arik; AJ Armbruster; O Arnaez; V Arnal

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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

G Aad, B Abbott, J Abdallah, SA Khalek, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS Abouzeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, R Abreu, Y Abulaiti, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, J Adelman, S Adomeit, T Adye, T Agatonovic-Jovin Show all

Journal of High Energy Physics | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)103

Abstract

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, depen..

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We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWF and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF, DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark; EPLANET, ERC and NSRF, European Union; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; GNSF, Georgia; BMBF, DFG, HGF, MPG and AvH Foundation, Germany; GSRT and NSRF, Greece; ISF, MINERVA, GIF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; FOM and NWO, Netherlands; BRF and RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; GRICES and FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM, Russian Federation; JINR; MSTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SER, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; NSC, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America.