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Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at s√=7  TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector

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Article number211802
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>22/05/2012
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number21
Volume108
Number of pages18
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonant states in photon+jet events in 2.11  fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at s√=7  TeV. We compare the photon+jet mass distribution to a background model derived from data and find consistency with the background-only hypothesis. Given the lack of evidence for a signal, we set 95% credibility level limits on generic Gaussian-shaped signals and on a benchmark excited-quark (q∗) model, excluding 2 TeV Gaussian resonances with cross section times branching fraction times acceptance times efficiency near 5 fb and excluding q∗ masses below 2.46 TeV, respectively.

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Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. © 2012 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration