The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. We report searches for new physics appearing through few-keV-scale electron recoils, using the experiment’s first exposure of 60 live days and a fiducial mass of 5.5 t. The data are found to be consistent with a background-only hypothesis, and limits are set on models for new physics including solar ...
9 pages, 8 figures. See https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041002 for a data release related to this paper; The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment is a dark matter detector centered on a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA. This Letter reports results from LUX-ZEPLIN's first search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) wit...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:11:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-09-17; The observation of the standard model (SM) Higgs boson decay to a pair of bottom quarks is presented. The main contribution to this result is from processes in which Higgs bosons are produced in association with a W or Z boson (VH), and are searched for in final states including 0, 1, or 2 charged lepto...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T16:25:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-10-19; Science and Technology Facilities Council; Two searches for physics beyond the standard model in events containing photons are presented. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.7fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV, collected with the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T16:39:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-10-22; Constraints on the lifetime and width of the Higgs boson are obtained from H→ZZ→4ℓ events using data recorded by the CMS experiment during the LHC run 1 with an integrated luminosity of 5.1 and 19.7fb-1 at a center-of-mass energy of 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. The measurement of the Higgs boson lifetime ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T17:14:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-22; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología; Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India; Deutsc...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T17:40:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-08-27; A first search is reported for a standard model Higgs boson (H) that is produced through vector boson fusion and decays to a bottom-quark pair. Two data samples, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 19.8fb-1 and 18.3fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV were selected for this channel at the ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T17:53:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-05; The top quark pair production cross section is measured for the first time in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 43 pb-1. The measurement is performed by analyzing events with at least one electron and one m...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T18:07:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-18; A search for narrow resonances in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV is presented. The invariant mass distribution of the two leading jets is measured with the CMS detector using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.4 fb-1. The highest observed dijet mass is 6.1 TeV. The distribut...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T18:21:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-18; The charge asymmetry in the production of top quark and antiquark pairs is measured in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb-1, were collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Events with a single isolated electron o...