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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 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 physics beyond the standard model using multilepton signatures in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV
(2011)Physics Letters BA search for physics beyond the standard model in events with at least three leptons and any number of jets is presented. The data sample corresponds to 35 pb−1 of integrated luminosity in pp collisions at s=7TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. A number of exclusive multileptonic channels are investigated and standard model backgrounds are suppressed by requiring sufficient missing transverse energy, invariant mass ...Journal Article -
Measurement of the Polarization of W Bosons with Large Transverse Momenta in W plus jets Events at the LHC
(2011)Physical Review LettersA first measurement of the polarization of W bosons with large transverse momenta in pp collisions is presented. The measurement is based on 36 pb−1 of data recorded at √s=7 TeV by the CMS detector at the LHC. The left-handed, right-handed, and longitudinal polarization fractions (fL, fR, and f0, respectively) of W bosons with transverse momenta larger than 50 GeV are determined by using decays to both electrons and muons. The muon final ...Journal Article -
Search for Three-Jet Resonances in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeVV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for three-jet hadronic resonance production in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV has been conducted by the CMS Collaboration at the LHC, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35 pb−1. Events with high jet multiplicity and a large scalar sum of jet transverse momenta are analyzed using a signature-based approach. The number of expected standard model background events is found to be in ...Journal Article -
Study of Z Boson Production in PbPb Collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for Z bosons in the μ+μ− decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2 μb−1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60–120 GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity (y) and per minimum bias event of [33.8±5.5(stat)±4.4(syst)]×10−8, in the |y|<2.0 range. Rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality ...Journal Article -
Indications of Suppression of Excited Upsilon States in Pb-Pb Collisions at root(s)NN=2.76 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA comparison of the relative yields of Υ resonances in the μ+μ− decay channel in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV is performed with data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Using muons of transverse momentum above 4 GeV/c and pseudorapidity below 2.4, the double ratio of the Υ(2S) and Υ(3S) excited states to the Υ(1S) ground state in Pb-Pb and pp collisions, [Υ(2S+3S)/Υ(1S)]Pb−Pb/[ ...Journal Article -
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV in events with two photons and missing transverse energy
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for supersymmetry in the context of general gauge-mediated breaking with the lightest neutralino as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and the gravitino as the lightest is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is performed by using events containing two or more isolated photons, at least one hadronic jet, and significant missing ...Journal Article -
Search for B0s→μ+μ− and B0→μ+μ− Decays in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV
(2011)Physical Review LettersA search for the rare decays B0s→μ+μ− and B0→μ+μ− is performed in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV, with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.14 fb−1, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In both cases, the number of events observed after all selection requirements is consistent with expectations from background and standard-model signal predictions. The resulting upper limits on the branching fractions are ...Journal Article