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Search for a W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
(2013)Physics Letters BResults are presented from a search for a W' boson using a dataset corresponding to 5.0fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at s=7TeV. The W' boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary mixture of the two. The ...Journal Article -
Forward–backward asymmetry of Drell–Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
(2013)Physics Letters BA measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry (AFB) of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in pp collisions at s=7TeV is presented. The data sample, collected with the CMS detector, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5fb-1. The asymmetry is measured as a function of dilepton mass and rapidity in the dielectron and dimuon channels. Combined results from the two channels are presented, and are compared with the standard model predictions. The ...Journal Article -
Studies of jet quenching using isolated-photon + jet correlations in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
(2013)Physics Letters BResults from the first study of isolated-photon+jet correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions are reported. The analysis uses data from PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76TeV per nucleon pair corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150μb-1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. For events containing an isolated photon with transverse momentum pTγ>60GeV/c and an associated jet with pTJet>30GeV/c, the photon+jet ...Journal Article -
Search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays in pp collisions at 7 TeV
(2013)Physics Letters BThe results of a search for flavor changing neutral currents in top quark decays t→Zq in events with a topology compatible with the decay chain tt̄→Wb+Zq→ℓνb+ℓℓq are presented. The search is performed with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb-1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The observed number of events agrees with the standard model ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV
(2013)Physical Review LettersFirst measurements of the azimuthal anisotropy of neutral pions produced in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy of √sNN=2.76 TeV are presented. The amplitudes of the second Fourier component (v2) of the π0 azimuthal distributions are extracted using an event-plane technique. The values of v2 are studied as a function of the neutral pion transverse momentum (pT) for different classes of collision centrality in the kinematic range ...Journal Article -
Search for new physics in final states with a lepton and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at the LHC
(2013)Physical Review DThis Letter describes the search for an enhanced production rate of events with a charged lepton and a neutrino in high-energy pp collisions at the LHC. The analysis uses data collected with the CMS detector, with an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1 at √s=7 TeV, and a further 3.7 fb−1 at √s=8 TeV. No evidence is found for an excess. The results are interpreted in terms of limits on a heavy charged gauge boson (W′) in the sequential ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the ZZ production cross section and search for anomalous couplings in 2l2l' final states in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV
(2013)Journal of High Energy PhysicsA measurement is presented of the ZZ production cross section in the ZZ → 2ℓ2ℓ′ decay mode with ℓ = e, μ and ℓ′ = e, μ, τ in proton-proton collisions at s√=7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. The measured cross section σ(pp→ZZ)=6.24+0.86−0.80(stat.)+0.41−0.32(syst.)±0.14(lumi.)pb is consistent with the standard model predictions. The following limits ...Journal Article -
Observation of a diffractive contribution to dijet production in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2013)Physical Review DThe cross section for dijet production in proton-proton collisions at √s=7 TeV is presented as a function of ˜ξ, a variable that approximates the fractional momentum loss of the scattered proton in single-diffractive events. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 2.7 nb−1 collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at low instantaneous luminosities, and uses events with jet transverse momentum of at least 20 GeV. The dijet ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV
(2013)Physical Review CThe anisotropy of the azimuthal distributions of charged particles produced in √sNN=2.76 TeV PbPb collisions is studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The elliptic anisotropy parameter, v2, defined as the second coefficient in a Fourier expansion of the particle invariant yields, is extracted using the event-plane method, two- and four-particle cumulants, and Lee-Yang zeros. The anisotropy is presented as a function of transverse ...Journal Article -
Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse energy and 0, 1, 2, or at least 3 b-quark jets in 7 TeV pp collisions using the variable alphaT
(2013)Journal of High Energy PhysicsA search for supersymmetry in final states with jets and missing transverse energy is performed in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √s=7 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.98 fb−1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In this search, a dimensionless kinematic variable, α T, is used as the main discriminator between events with genuine and misreconstructed missing transverse energy. The search ...Journal Article