Search for large extra spatial dimensions in dimuon production with the D0 detector -: art. no. 161602

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作者
Abazov, VM [1 ]
Abbott, B
Abolins, M
Acharya, BS
Adams, M
Adams, T
Agelou, M
Agram, JL
Ahn, SH
Ahsan, M
Alexeev, GD
Alkhazov, G
Alton, A
Alverson, G
Alves, GA
Anastasoaie, M
Andeen, T
Anderson, S
Andrieu, B
Arnoud, Y
Askew, A
Åsman, B
Jesus, ACSA
Atramentov, O
Autermann, C
Avila, C
Badaud, F
Baden, A
Bagby, L
Baldin, B
Balm, PW
Banerjee, P
Banerjee, S
Barberis, E
Bargassa, P
Baringer, P
Barnes, C
Barreto, J
Bartlett, JF
Bassler, U
Bauer, D
Bean, A
Beauceron, S
Begalli, M
Begel, M
Bellavance, A
Beri, SB
Bernardi, G
Bernhard, R
Bertram, I
机构
[1] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[2] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[3] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[5] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[6] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[7] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[8] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[9] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[10] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[11] Charles Univ Prague, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[12] Czech Tech Univ, CR-16635 Prague, Czech Republic
[13] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Ctr Particle Phys, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[14] Univ San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
[15] Univ Clermont Ferrand, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, IN2P3, CNRS, Clermont Ferrand, France
[16] Univ Grenoble 1, Lab Phys Subatom & Cosmol, IN2P3, CNRS, Grenoble, France
[17] Univ Aix Marseille 2, CPPM, IN2P3, CNRS, Marseille, France
[18] CNRS, Lab Accelerateur Lineaire, IN2P3, F-91405 Orsay, France
[19] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, LPNHE, IN2P3, Paris, France
[20] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France
[21] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, Serv Phys Particules, Saclay, France
[22] Univ Strasbourg 1, IReS, IN2P3, CNRS, Mulhouse, France
[23] Univ Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
[24] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[25] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Inst Phys 3, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[26] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-5300 Bonn, Germany
[27] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[28] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-6500 Mainz, Germany
[29] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[30] Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[31] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[32] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[33] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[34] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[35] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[36] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[37] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF H, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[38] Univ Amsterdam, FOM, Inst NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[39] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[40] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[41] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[42] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[43] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[44] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[45] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden
[46] Stockholm Univ, Royal Inst Technol, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[47] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[48] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster, England
[49] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London, England
[50] Univ Manchester, Manchester, Lancs, England
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161602
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present the results of a search for the effects of large extra spatial dimensions in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1: 96 TeV in events containing a pair of energetic muons. The data correspond to 246 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Good agreement with the expected background was found, yielding no evidence for large extra dimensions. We set 95% C. L. lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale between 0.85 and 1.27 TeV within several formalisms. These are the most stringent limits achieved in the dimuon channel to date.
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