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Search for high mass dilepton resonances in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 700, no. 3-4, p. 163-180
Publication date2011
Abstract

This Letter presents a search for high mass e+e− or μ+μ−resonances in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV at the LHC. The data were recorded by the ATLAS experiment during 2010 and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of ∼40 pb−1. No statistically significant excess above the Standard Model expectation is observed in the search region of dilepton invariant mass above 110 GeV. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the cross section times branching ratio of Z′ resonances decaying to dielectrons and dimuons as a function of the resonance mass. A lower mass limit of 1.048 TeV on the Sequential Standard Model Z′ boson is derived, as well as mass limits on Z⁎ and E6-motivated Z′ models.

Keywords
  • Grand unified theory
  • Narrow resonance
  • New gauge boson
  • Z′
  • Dilepton
  • Mass spectrum
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ATLAS Collaboration. Search for high mass dilepton resonances in <em>pp</em> collisions at √s=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. In: Physics letters. B, 2011, vol. 700, n° 3-4, p. 163–180. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.044
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