[PDF] Top 20 Search for pair-produced resonances decaying to jet pairs in proton–proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV

... up to two additional initial-state partons, and each top squark decays into two jets through the λ 00 UDD quark RPV ...refer to the quark generations of the corresponding quarks, is set to a non-zero ... See full document

... required to have at least one primary vertex reconstructed within | z | < 24 cm from the center of the detector and with a transverse distance less than 2 cm from the ...clusters in the ECAL. ... See full document

... discovered at the CERN LHC [1–3] with its properties subsequently shown [4–7] to be consistent with those of the standard model (SM) [8– 10] Higgs boson ...tested to answer these questions, ... See full document

... step in exploring potential substructure, the jet constituents are subjected to a jet grooming algorithm that improves the resolution in the jet mass and reduces the effect of ... See full document

... The central feature of the CMS apparatus is a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diame- ter, providing a magnetic field of 3.8 T. Within the solenoid volume are a silicon pixel and strip tracker, a lead tungstate ... See full document

... equal to 0. Selected muons are further required to pass the following quality criteria: tracks of muon candidates must have at least six hits in the silicon tracker, at least one hit ... See full document

... hit in at most one pixel layer, and must be within ...vertex in the barrel (endcap). The resulting electron candidates are required to pass a set of criteria optimized for electrons with ... See full document

... CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); SENESCYT (Ecuador); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); ... See full document

... (H) at the CERN LHC [1–3], with mass around 125 GeV and properties so far consistent with the standard model (SM) of particle physics, it has become important to search for new resonances that ... See full document

... studied in this analysis is motivated by the search for signatures of strong gravity at the TeV scale (terascale gravity) and assumes the existence of string couplings in the ... See full document

... A search is reported for a narrow vector resonance decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 13 TeV, collected ... See full document

... America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, ... See full document

... close to 125 GeV [8– 10] with properties consistent with those expected for the SM Higgs boson [11–15], and no other fundamental particle that would require explanation beyond the SM (BSM) has been ... See full document

... wide resonances of interest this term produces a resonance shape with a very large tail at low mass: a cross section that falls rapidly with increasing diparton mass, like the mul- tijet ...shape at ... See full document

... limits in these figures exhibit several deviations from the expected one beyond ± 2 standard ...deviation. In order to es- timate the global significance of these deviations within the search ... See full document

... acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring ... 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

... the TeV scale, giving rise to new massive gauge bosons denoted as Z 0 ...angle to describe the mixing of the U 0 (1) ...lepton pair production via a Z 0 vector boson can, in the ... See full document

... A search for an excess of events with large missing transverse momentum (p miss T ) produced in association with a pair of heavy-flavor quarks has been performed with a sample of ... See full document

... W-tagged jet in the region of 30 < m jet < 70 GeV or m jet > 100 ...t-tagged to the number of all top quark candidate jets to define the t mistagging ...described ... See full document