Aaboud, M;
Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abdallah, J;
Abdinov, O;
Abeloos, B;
Aben, R;
... Zwalinski, L; + view all
(2016)
Search for resonances in diphoton events at root s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2016
(9)
, Article 1. 10.1007/JHEP09(2016)001.
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Abstract
Searches for new resonances decaying into two photons in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are described. The analysis is based on protonproton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb−1 at √ s = 13 TeV recorded in 2015. Two searches are performed, one targeted at a spin-2 particle of mass larger than 500 GeV, using Randall-Sundrum graviton states as a benchmark model, and one optimized for a spin-0 particle of mass larger than 200 GeV. Varying both the mass and the decay width, the most significant deviation from the background-only hypothesis is observed at a diphoton invariant mass around 750 GeV with local significances of 3.8 and 3.9 standard deviations in the searches optimized for a spin-2 and spin-0 particle, respectively. The global significances are estimated to be 2.1 standard deviations for both analyses. The consistency between the data collected at 13 TeV and 8 TeV is also evaluated. Limits on the production cross section times branching ratio to two photons for the two resonance types are reported.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Search for resonances in diphoton events at root s=13TeV with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP09(2016)001 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2016)001 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Particles & Fields, Physics, Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments), Hard scattering, Particle and resonance production, proton-proton scattering, COLLISIONS, HIERARCHY, MODEL |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1507502 |
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