Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:14:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-03-26; Results are presented of a search for compositeness in electrons and muons using a data sample of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy s=7 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. Excited leptons (ℓ⁎) are assumed to be produced via con...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T06:25:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-21; We report an investigation of the invariant mass spectrum of the two jets with highest transverse momentum in pp→W+2-jet and W+3-jet events to look for resonant enhancement. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1 collected with the CMS detector at √s=7 TeV. We find no eviden...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T06:37:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-27; Results are presented from a search for heavy, right-handed muon neutrinos, Nμ, and right-handed WR bosons, which arise in the left-right symmetric extensions of the standard model. The analysis is based on a 5.0 fb-1 sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by t...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T00:25:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-08-29; A search for three-jet hadronic resonance production in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35pb-1. Events with high jet multiplicity and a large scalar sum of jet trans...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T01:14:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-09-29; A measurement of the differential cross section for the inclusive production of isolated prompt photons in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36pb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. The measurement...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T01:26:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-01; National Science Foundation; A search for the rare decays Bs0→μ+μ- and B0→μ+μ- is performed in pp collisions at √s=7TeV, with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14fb-1, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In both cases, the number of events observed after all selection ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T01:51:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-11-21; A search for events with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in a data sample of pp collisions collected at √s=7TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14fb-1. In this search, a kinematic variable αT is used as the main disc...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:17:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-08; A multivariate likelihood method to measure electroweak couplings with the Drell-Yan process at the LHC is presented. The process is described by the dilepton rapidity, invariant mass, and decay angle distributions. The decay angle ambiguity due to the unknown assignment of the scattered constituent qua...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:30:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-29; A search for pair-produced heavy vectorlike charge-2/3 quarks, T, in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, is performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with the flavor-changing-neutral-current decay of a T quark to a top quark and a Z boson are selected by requiring two ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T02:57:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-19; The top quark pair production cross section is measured in dilepton events with one electron or muon, and one hadronically decaying τ lepton from the decay tt̄→(ν)(τ hν τ)bb̄, (=e,μ). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb -1 for the electron channel and 2.2fb -1 for the muon c...