- Title Information
- Title
- Search for Microscopic Black Hole Signatures at the Large Hadron Collider
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Personal
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- Tsang, Ka Vang
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Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
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- xii, 168 p.
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- born digital
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2011)
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Personal
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- Landsberg, Greg
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- Director
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Personal
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- Jevicki, Antal
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- Reader
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Personal
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- Narain, Meenakshi
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Corporate
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- Brown University. Physics
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- theses
- Abstract
- A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted using Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. A total integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1 data sample, taken by CMS Collaboration in year 2010, has been analyzed. A novel background estimation for multi-jet events beyond TeV scale has been developed. A good agreement with standard model backgrounds, dominated by multi-jet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities. Using semi-classical approximation, upper limits on minimum black hole mass at 95% confidence level are set in the range of 3.5 - 4.5 TeV for values of the Planck scale up to 3 TeV. Model-independent limits are provided to further constrain microscopic black hole models with additional regions of parameter space, as well as new physics models with multiple energetic final states. These are the first limits on microscopic black hole production at a particle accelerator.
- Subject
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- High Energy Physics
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- LHC
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- CMS
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- Black Hole
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(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1054130")
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- Particles (Nuclear physics)
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- 20111003
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z08G8HZ5
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- dissertations