Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV

Chatrchyan, S. and Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Bergauer, T. and Dragicevic, M. and Erö, J. and Fabjan, C. and Friedl, M. and Frühwirth, R. and Ghete, V. M. and Hörmann, N. and Hrubec, J. and Jeitler, M. and Kiesenhofer, W. and Knünz, V. and Krammer, M. and Krätschmer, I. and Liko, D. and Mikulec, I. and Rabady, D. and Rahbaran, B. and Rohringer, C. and Rohringer, H. and Schöfbeck, R. and Strauss, J. and Taurok, A. and Treberer-Treberspurg, W. and Waltenberger, W. and Bencze, György and Hajdu, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Molnár, József and Pálinkás, József and Karancsi, János and Raics, Péter and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Krajczár, Krisztián and Veres, Gábor (2013) Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (7). ISSN 1126-6708

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Abstract

A search for microscopic black holes and string balls is presented, based on a data sample of pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV recorded by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 12 fb−1. No excess of events with energetic multiparticle final states, typical of black hole production or of similar new physics processes, is observed. Given the agreement of the observa- tions with the expected standard model background, which is dominated by QCD multijet production, 95% confidence level limits are set on the production of semi- classical or quantum black holes, or of string balls, corresponding to the exclusions of masses below 4.3 to 6.2 TeV, depending on model assumptions. In addition, model- independent limits are set on new physics processes resulting in energetic multipar- ticle final states.

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