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A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector

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In: New Journal of Physics, Vol. 13, No. 5, 053044, 05.2011.

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The ATLAS collaboration. A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector. New Journal of Physics. 2011 May;13(5):053044. doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/5/053044

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title = "A search for new physics in dijet mass and angular distributions in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A search for new interactions and resonances produced in LHC proton-proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy root s = 7 TeV was performed with the ATLAS detector. Using a dataset with an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), dijet mass and angular distributions were measured up to dijet masses of similar to 3.5 TeV and were found to be in good agreement with Standard Model predictions. This analysis sets limits at 95% CL on various models for new physics: an excited quark is excluded for mass between 0.60 and 2.64 TeV, an axigluon hypothesis is excluded for axigluon masses between 0.60 and 2.10 TeV and quantum black holes are excluded in models with six extra space-time dimensions for quantum gravity scales between 0.75 and 3.67 TeV. Production cross section limits as a function of dijet mass are set using a simplified Gaussian signal model to facilitate comparisons with other hypotheses. Analysis of the dijet angular distribution using a novel technique simultaneously employing the dijet mass excludes quark contact interactions with a compositeness scale 3 below 9.5 TeV.",
author = "Adam Barton and Guennadi Borissov and Eva Bouhova-Thacker and Timothy Brodbeck and James Catmore and Sue Cheatham and Alexandre Chilingarov and Ruth Davidson and {de Mora}, Lee and Harald Fox and Robert Henderson and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Robin Long and Peter Love and Peter Ratoff and Terence Sloan and Maria Smizanska and James Walder and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Ratoff, Peter

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AU - Smizanska, Maria

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