Publication
Title
Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8TeV$
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
 A search for microscopic black holes and string balls is presented, based on a data sample of pp collisions at root 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 observations with the expected standard model background, which is dominated by QCD multijet production, 95% confidence level limits are set on the production of semiclassical 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 multiparticle final states.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of high energy physics. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2013
ISSN
1126-6708
1029-8479 [online]
Volume/pages
7(2013), p. 1-34
ISI
000323202900091
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