[PDF] Top 20 Search for quark compositeness in dijet angular distributions from $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV

... D. Abbaneo, E. Auffray, G. Auzinger, P. Baillon, A.H. Ball, D. Barney, C. Bernet 5 , W. Bialas, G. Bianchi, P. Bloch, A. Bocci, H. Breuker, K. Bunkowski, T. Camporesi, G. Cerminara, T. Christiansen, J.A. Coarasa Perez, ... See full document

... tainty due to finite data statistics in the control regions. The next dominant uncertainty on the SM estimates de- rives from the residual uncertainties on the theoretical modeling of the top background. It ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC ...staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO ... See full document

... expectation from the γγ sub-channels only, where the systematic uncertainties on the expected cross section and branching fraction are included in the limit setting ...the search in this ... See full document

... gluinos in R-parity-violating (RPV) SUSY models [1, 2], or more generally any colored fermion resonance that transforms as an octet under SU ( 3 ) C ...as dijet resonances, or require the presence of large ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC ...staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from: FMSR (Austria); FNRS and FWO ... See full document

... colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent perfor- mance of the LHC ...staff at CERN and other CMS institutes, and acknowledge support from BMWF and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO ... See full document

... butions from all possible lepton combinations are taken into account and added to the relevant distributions according to the relative branching ...observed in data are in reasonable agreement ... See full document

... Uncertainties in the SM and signal predictions include theoretical uncertainties and experimental uncertainties on the measured angular ...certainties in the SM and signal predictions are due to the ... See full document

... that at most one of the three thresholds is passed in each of them, while the other estimations have at least one suppressed population sample because of the requirement for two thresholds to be ... See full document

... a search for the production of new particles decaying to pairs of partons (quarks, antiquarks, or gluons), in the dijet mass spectrum in proton- proton collisions at √ s = ... See full document

... tt quark pairs, double-vector boson production (VV), ttV + jets, and WWW + jets using the M AD G RAPH [23] event generator, and of multijet events described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) using the P YTHIA ... See full document

... is s channel enriched, and employed in signal extraction, the 2-jets 1-tag category is useful to constrain the t channel and W+jets backgrounds, while the 3-jets 2-tags category is useful to constrain the ... See full document

... inclusive search for new heavy ...ations from the characteristic distributions of the relevant SM processes in the razor variable plane [31, ...produced in high-energy proton-proton ... See full document

... top quark, diboson, Z+jets, and multijet production), the normalizations are taken directly from the ...background in the signal region (tt production, W+c, W+b, and W+light-flavour jets), the ... See full document

... described in Refs. [28, 29] and [30], respectively. All particles apart from the isolated electrons and muons are clustered into jets using the anti-k T jet clustering algorithm [31] with distance parameter ... See full document

... resulting in a broader di- jet mass shape and, consequently, weaker expected ...quarks in the final ...gluons in addition to b quarks (“gg/bb”) and one for resonances that decay into quarks only ... 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, FP7, ... See full document

... proton-proton collisions at the CERN LHC probe the dynamics of the underlying interaction at distances below 10 − 19 ...these collisions produce a pair of jets (dijets) approximately balanced ... See full document

... A search is presented for extra spatial dimensions, quantum black holes, and quark contact interactions in measurements of dijet angular distributions in proton-proton ... See full document