Search for Signatures of Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Mass Spectrum at the Large Hadron Collider

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A search for signatures of extra spatial dimensions in the diphoton invariant-mass spectrum has been performed with the CMS detector at the LHC. No excess of events above the standard model expectation is observed using a data sample collected in proton-proton collisions at √s=7  TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2  fb−1. In the context of the large-extra-dimensions model, lower limits are set on the effective Planck scale in the range of 2.3–3.8 TeV at the 95% confidence level. These limits are the most restrictive bounds on virtual-graviton exchange to date. The most restrictive lower limits to date are also set on the mass of the first graviton excitation in the Randall-Sundrum model in the range of 0.86–1.84 TeV, for values of the associated coupling parameter between 0.01 and 0.10.

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Adair, A., Boulahouache, C., Cuplov, V., et al.. "Search for Signatures of Extra Dimensions in the Diphoton Mass Spectrum at the Large Hadron Collider." Physical Review Letters, 108, no. 11 (2012) American Physical Society: 111801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.111801.

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