A search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb(-1) recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. Events with large total transverse energy have been analyzed for the presence of multiple energetic jets, leptons, and photons, which are typical signals of evaporating semiclassical and quantum black holes, and string balls. Agreement with the expected standard model backgrounds, which are dominated by QCD multijet production, has been observed for various combined multiplicities of jets and other reconstructed objects in the final state. Model-independent limits are set on new physics processes producing high-multiplicity, energetic final states. In addition, new model-specific indicative limits are set excluding semiclassical and quantum black holes with masses below 3.8 to 5.3TeV and string balls with masses below 4.6 to 4.8TeV. The analysis has a substantially increased sensitivity compared to previous searches.

Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV / S., C., V., K., A. M., S., A., T., W., A., T., B., M., D., J., E., C., F., M., F., R., F., V. M., G., J., H., M., H., N., H., J., H., M., J., W., K., M., K., D., L., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - (2012), p. 061. [10.1007/jhep04(2012)061]

Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV

BARONE, Luciano Maria;DEL RE, Daniele;LONGO, Egidio;MICHELI, FRANCESCO;ORGANTINI, Giovanni;PARAMATTI, Riccardo;RAHATLOU, SHAHRAM;SOFFI, LIVIA;SANTANASTASIO, FRANCESCO;TRACZYK, PIOTR WOJCIECH;
2012

Abstract

A search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb(-1) recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. Events with large total transverse energy have been analyzed for the presence of multiple energetic jets, leptons, and photons, which are typical signals of evaporating semiclassical and quantum black holes, and string balls. Agreement with the expected standard model backgrounds, which are dominated by QCD multijet production, has been observed for various combined multiplicities of jets and other reconstructed objects in the final state. Model-independent limits are set on new physics processes producing high-multiplicity, energetic final states. In addition, new model-specific indicative limits are set excluding semiclassical and quantum black holes with masses below 3.8 to 5.3TeV and string balls with masses below 4.6 to 4.8TeV. The analysis has a substantially increased sensitivity compared to previous searches.
2012
hadron-hadron scattering
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Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV / S., C., V., K., A. M., S., A., T., W., A., T., B., M., D., J., E., C., F., M., F., R., F., V. M., G., J., H., M., H., N., H., J., H., M., J., W., K., M., K., D., L., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - (2012), p. 061. [10.1007/jhep04(2012)061]
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