Search for Signatures of Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Mass Spectrum at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

A search for signatures of extra spatial dimensions in the diphoton invariant-mass spectrum has been performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed using a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2: 2 fb(-1). In the context of the large-extra-dimensions model, lower limits are set on the effective Planck scale in the range of 2.3-3.8 TeV at the 95 confidence level. These limits are the most restrictive bounds on virtual-graviton exchange to date. The most restrictive lower limits to date are also set on the mass of the first graviton excitation in the Randall-Sundrum model in the range of 0.86-1.84 TeV, for values of the associated coupling parameter between 0.01 and 0.10.


Tutti gli autori

  • POMPILI A.;MARANGELLI B.;CALABRIA C.;SELVAGGI G.;LUSITO L.;BARBONE L.;ABBRESCIA M.;DE PALMA M.;PACIFICO N.;MANNA N.;MY S.;NUZZO S.V.

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2012

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0031-9007

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56

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60

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