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Searching for a new force of nature with the CMS detector

  • Boston University

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Abstract

The CMS experiment, at the LHC, is a general-purpose particle detector designed to study the products of proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions in order to decipher the deepest laws of Nature. Together with an overview of the CMS experiment, the results of a search for a new gauge boson W′, decaying into a muon and a neutrino, are presented. This search was performed using pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TV, corresponding to 36 pb -1 of data gathered with the CMS detector. No excess of events above the standard model (SM) is found in the transverse mass distribution of the muon-neutrino system, and W′, boson masses below 1.58 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level, when combined with the electron channel.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIX Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications
Pages198-205
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event9th Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications - Quito, Ecuador
Duration: 18 Jul 201122 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1423
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference9th Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications
Country/TerritoryEcuador
CityQuito
Period18/07/1122/07/11

Keywords

  • CMS
  • W′
  • exotica
  • new phenomena
  • physics
  • wprime

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