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Search for Neutral Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons Decaying to Tau Pairs in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for neutral minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs bosons in pp collisions at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment. The search uses decays of the Higgs bosons to tau pairs. No excess is observed in the tau-pair invariant-mass spectrum. The resulting upper limits on the Higgs ...Journal Article -
Search for Pair Production of Second-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for pair production of second-generation scalar leptoquarks in the final state with two muons and two jets is performed using proton-proton collision data at √s=7 TeV collected by the CMS detector at the LHC. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb−1. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the predictions from the standard model processes. An upper limit is set on the second-generation ...Journal Article -
Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions and Search for Quark Compositeness in pp Collisions √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersDijet angular distributions are measured over a wide range of dijet invariant masses in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV, at the CERN LHC. The event sample, recorded with the CMS detector, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1. The data are found to be in good agreement with the predictions of perturbative QCD, and yield no evidence of quark compositeness. With a modified frequentist approach, a lower limit on the contact interaction ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the ratio of the 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BA measurement of the ratio of the inclusive 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections as a function of the total jet transverse momentum. HT, in the range 0.2 < H-T < 2.5 TeV is presented. The data have been collected at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1). Comparisons are made between the data and the predictions of different QCD-based Monte Carlo ...Journal Article -
Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for events with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in a data sample of pp collisions collected at √s=7 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The analyzed data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb−1. In this search, a kinematic variable αT is used as the main discriminator between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. No excess of events over the standard model ...Journal Article -
Search for New Physics with a Monojet and Missing Transverse Energy in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA study of events with missing transverse energy and an energetic jet is performed using pp collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data were collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1. An excess of these events over standard model contributions is a signature of new physics such as large extra dimensions and unparticles. The number of observed events is in good agreement ...Journal Article -
Search for a W ' boson decaying to a muon and a neutrino in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BA new heavy gauge boson, W', decaying to a muon and a neutrino, is searched for in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1). No significant excess of events above the standard model expectation is found in the transverse mass distribution of the muon-neutrino system. Masses below 1.40 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence ...Journal Article -
Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in the eνjj channel in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BA search for pair-production of first generation scalar leptoquarks is performed in the final state containing an electron, a neutrino, and at least two jets using proton-proton collision data at √s=7 TeV. The data were collected by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb-1. The number of observed events is in good agreement with the predictions for standard model processes. Prior CMS results in the ...Journal Article -
A search for excited leptons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BA search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36 pb-1 of pp collision data recorded at s=7 TeV. The search is performed for associated production of a lepton and an oppositely charged excited lepton pp→ℓℓ*, followed by the decay ℓ*→ℓγ, resulting in the ℓℓγ final state, where ℓ=e,μ. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed. Interpreting the findings in the context of ℓ* ...Journal Article -
Search for a heavy bottom-like quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BJournal Article