Abstract

A search is presented for extra spatial dimensions, quantum black holes, and quark contact interactions in measurements of dijet angular distributions in proton-proton collisions at sqrt{s}=13 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 2.6 fb−1. The distributions are found to be in agreement with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics that include electroweak corrections. Limits for different contact interaction models are obtained. In a benchmark model, valid to next-to-leading order in QCD and in which only left-handed quarks participate, quark contact interactions are excluded up to a scale of 11.5 and 14.7 TeV for destructive or constructive interference, respectively. The production of quantum black holes is excluded for masses below 7.8 or 5.3 TeV, depending on the model. The lower limits for the scales of virtual graviton exchange in the Arkani-Hamed-Dimopoulos-Dvali model of extra spatial dimensions are in the range 7.9–11.2 TeV, and are the most stringent set of limits available.

Highlights

  • √ by the CMS Collaboration at the CERN LHC at s = 8 TeV using dijet angular distributions [11] provided lower limits on Λ ranging from 8.8 to 15.2 TeV, for a variety of CI √

  • In protonproton collisions at the LHC, the ADD model predicts signatures of virtual graviton exchange that result in a nonresonant enhancement of dijet production and an angular distribution that differs from the QCD expectation

  • We evaluated the impact on the QCD predictions of nonperturbative effects related to hadronization and multiple parton interactions using pythia 8 with the CUETP8M1 tune [73, 74] and herwig++ 2.7.1 [75] with tune EE5C

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Summary

The CMS detector and event selection

The CMS apparatus is based on a superconducting solenoid of 6 m internal diameter, providing an axial field of 3.8 T. The selection criteria for this analysis are based upon the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of the jets reconstructed by the L1 and HLT systems. The phase space for this analysis is defined by selecting events with 1 ≤ χdijet < 16 and |yboost| < 1.11, where yboost = (1/2)(y1 + y2). This selection restricts the rapidities |y1| and |y2| of the two highest-pT jets to be less than 2.5 and their pT to be larger than 200 GeV. The highest value of Mjj observed in the data is 6.8 TeV

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