Abstract
Signs of physics beyond the Standard Model are widely searched for in proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We review results of exotic physics searches based on 20 fb−1 of data collected in 2012 by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. Selected benchmark analyses are presented, including searches in topologies with leptons, photons and jets, as well as a description of techniques to identify the production of exotic objects such as massive long-lived charged particles. No statistically-significant excess of events is observed in the data, therefore results are presented in terms of exclusion limits on the mass and the production cross section of hypothetical particles.
Highlights
IntroductionWe present a review of selected exotica searches in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), based on the data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to 12 to 20 fb−1 of integrated luminosity
The remaining unsolved puzzles of the Universe are the motivation for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments to search for signs of New Physics.The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics describing elementary particles and their interactions is very successful theory, which provides precise predictions for experimental measurements
Within the SM, there is no candidate for the Dark Matter (DM), the source of matterantimatter asymmetry in quark flavour mixing is insufficient to account for the cosmic asymmetry, and the gravitational interaction is neglected
Summary
We present a review of selected exotica searches in the CMS, based on the data collected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, and corresponding to 12 to 20 fb−1 of integrated luminosity.
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