Search for Large Extra Spatial Dimensions in Dimuon Production with the D0 Detector

Journal Article · Fri Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2005 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161602· OSTI ID:20696558

Abazov, V M; Alexeev, G D; Kalinin, A M; Kharzheev, Y M; Malyshev, V L; Vertogradov, L S; Yatsunenko, Y A ^[1]; Abbott, B; Gutierrez, P; Hall, I; Jain, S; Kopal, M; Pompos, A; Severini, H; Skubic, P; Strauss, M; Zhang, X ^[2]; Abolins, M; Brock, R; Dyer, J ^[3]

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1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)
2. University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 (United States)
3. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (United States); and others

We present the results of a search for the effects of large extra spatial dimensions in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV in events containing a pair of energetic muons. The data correspond to 246 pb{sup -1} of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Good agreement with the expected background was found, yielding no evidence for large extra dimensions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale between 0.85 and 1.27 TeV within several formalisms. These are the most stringent limits achieved in the dimuon channel to date.

• OSTI ID: 20696558
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 16; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161602; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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