Search for pair-produced massive coloured scalars in four-jet final states with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Aad, G. and Abajyan, T. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Khalek, S. A. and Abdelalim, A. A. and Abdinov, O. and Aben, R. and Abi, B. and Abolins, M. and AbouZeid, O. S. and Abramowicz, H. and Abreu, H. and Acharya, B. S. and Adamczyk, L. and Adams, D. L. and Addy, T. N. and Adelman, J. and Adomeit, S. and Adragna, P. and Adye, T. and Aefsky, S. and Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. and Agustoni, M. and Aharrouche, M. and Ahlen, S. P. and Ahles, F. and Ahmad, A. and Ahsan, M. and Aielli, G. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2013) Search for pair-produced massive coloured scalars in four-jet final states with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 73 (1). ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

A search for pair-produced massive coloured scalar particles decaying to a four-jet final state is performed by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV. The anal- ysed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1. No deviation from the Standard Model is observed in the invariant mass spectrum of the two-jet pairs. A limit on the scalar gluon pair production cross-section of 70 pb (10 pb) is obtained at the 95% confidence level for a scalar gluon mass of 150 GeV (350 GeV). Interpreting these results as mass limits on scalar gluons, masses ranging from 150 GeV to 287 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level.

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