Search for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state using large track multiplicity with the ATLAS detector

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Abstract

A search is presented for microscopic black holes in a like-sign dimuon final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1. Using a high track multiplicity requirement, 0.6±0.2 background events from Standard Model processes are predicted and none observed. This result is interpreted in the context of low-scale gravity models and 95% C.L. lower limits on microscopic black hole masses are set for different model assumptions.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number072001
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume88
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Oct 2013

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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