[PDF] Top 20 Search for excited leptons in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV

... and leptons may be composite objects of fundamental constituents [ 1 – 9 ...strong at a characteristic scale ...of excited states of quarks (q ∗ ) and leptons (` ∗ ) at the ... See full document

... two search regions are defined, referred to as the low- and high-mass ...regions. In the low-mass region (targeting m N < m W ), N is produced in the decay of an on-shell W boson, leading to the ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator depart- ments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS in- stitutes for their ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions ... See full document

... uncertainties in the jet energy scale, jet energy resolution, and integrated luminosity, all treated as nuisance parameters to be integrated ...independently at each value of resonance pole mass from 1.5 to ... See full document

... coverage in solid angle. Charged-particle tracks and vertices are reconstructed in silicon-based pixel and microstrip tracking detectors that cover |η| < ...role in electron and photon ... See full document

... A search has been performed for pair production of heavy res- onances decaying to pairs of jets in four-jet events from proton– proton collisions at √ s = 8 ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions ... See full document

... CIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and ... See full document

... generator used for the response matrix (2 cases PYTHIA6 CSC and PYTHIA6 Perugia0), low p T spectrum extrapola- tion below 50 MeV/c (3 cases: varying the integral below 50 MeV/c by −50, 0 and +100%), response matrix ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions ... See full document

... Nuisance parameters are included in the joint likelihood maximization to account for the vari- ous systematic uncertainties described above. For those uncertainties that arise from the same physical or detector ... See full document

... and leptons might be composite ob- jects of fundamental constituents ...strong at a characteristic scale ...of excited states of quarks (q ∗ ) and leptons ( ` ∗ ) at this character- ... See full document

... combined. In form- ing the combination of separate channels, systematic uncertainties affecting both the shape and the event yield are taken into ...yields in two limiting ...lated. In the ... See full document

... Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Techno- logy and the World ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions ... See full document

... Petersburg, Russia 33: Also at Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 34: Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 35: Also at Facoltà Ingegneri[r] ... See full document

... Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Founda- tion, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research ... See full document

... Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research ... See full document

... Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, and National Research ... See full document