A search for narrow resonances in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.9 pb⁻¹ collected by the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for decays into quark-quark, quark-gluon, or gluon-gluon pairs. The data exclude new particles predicted in the following models at the 95% confidence level: string resonances, with mass less than 2.50 TeV, excited quarks, with mass less than 1.58 TeV, and axigluons, colorons, and E6 diquarks, in specific mass intervals. This extends previously published limits on these models.
Measurements of inclusive charged-hadron transverse-momentum and pseudorapidity distributions are presented for proton-proton collisions at √ s = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV. The data were collected with the CMS detector during the LHC commissioning in December 2009. For non-single-diffractive interactions, the average charged-hadron transverse momentum is measured to be 0.46 ± 0.01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 0.9 TeV and 0.50 ± 0.01 (stat.) ± 0.01 (syst.) GeV/c at 2.36 TeV, for pseudorapidities between −2.4 and +2.4. At these energies, the measured pseudorapidity densities in the central region, dN ch /dη| |η|<0.5 , are 3.48 ± 0.02 (stat.) ± 0.13 (syst.) and 4.47 ± 0.04 (stat.) ± 0.16 (syst.), respectively. The results at 0.9 TeV are in agreement with previous measurements and confirm the expectation of near equal hadron production in pp and pp collisions. The results at 2.36 TeV represent the highest-energy measurements at a particle collider to date.
A search for narrow resonances with a mass of at least 1 TeV in the dijet mass spectrum is performed using pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb(-1), collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. No resonances are observed. Upper limits at the 95 confidence level are presented on the product of the resonance cross section, branching fraction into dijets, and acceptance, separately for decays into quark-quark, quark-gluon, and gluon-gluon pairs. The data exclude new particles predicted in the following models at the 95 confidence level: string resonances with mass less than 4.00 TeV, E-6 diquarks with mass less than 3.52 TeV, excited quarks with mass less than 2.49 TeV, axigluons and colorons with mass less than 2.47 TeV, and W' bosons with mass less than 1.51 TeV. These results extend previous exclusions from the dijet mass search technique. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Measurements of primary charged hadron multiplicity distributions are presented for non-single-diffractive events in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of √ s = 0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV, in five pseudorapidity ranges from |η| < 0.5 to |η| < 2.4. The data were collected with the minimum-bias trigger of the CMS experiment during the LHC commissioning runs in 2009 and the 7 TeV run in 2010. The multiplicity distribution at √ s = 0.9 TeV is in agreement with previous measurements. At higher energies the increase of the mean multiplicity with √ s is underestimated by most event generators. The average transverse momentum as a function of the multiplicity is also presented. The measurement of higher-order moments of the multiplicity distribution confirms the violation of Koba-Nielsen-Olesen scaling that has been observed at lower energies. Keywords: Hadron-Hadron ScatteringOpen Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration The CMS collaboration 21 IntroductionThe charged hadron multiplicity, or number of primary charged hadrons, n, is a basic global observable characterising final states in high-energy-collision processes. The multiplicity distribution, P n , is the probability to produce n charged hadrons in an event, either in full phase space or in restricted phase space domains. In this paper we report measurements of P n in non-single-diffractive [1] proton-proton collisions, at centre-of-mass energies √ s = 0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [2]. The measurements are based on events recorded by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) [3] experiment, using a minimumbias trigger.Energy-momentum and charge conservation significantly influence the multiplicity distribution for the full phase space. The distribution in restricted phase space, which is less affected by such constraints, is expected to be a more sensitive probe of the underlying dynamics and can be used to better constrain phenomenological models. Comprehensive reviews on the subject can be found in [1,4,5]. The measurements described in this paper are performed for intervals of increasing extent in pseudorapidity from |η| < 0.5 up to |η| < 2.4, where η is defined as −ln[tan(θ/2)], and θ is the polar angle of the particle with respect to -1 - JHEP01(2011)079the counterclockwise beam direction. In these measurements primary charged hadrons are defined as all charged hadrons produced in the interaction, including the products of the decays of objects with life-time less than 10 −10 seconds; products of longer-lived particles, such as K 0 S and Λ, and hadrons originating from secondary interactions are excluded. Independent emission of single particles yields a Poissonian P n . Deviations from this shape, therefore, reveal correlations. These correlations are predominantly short range in rapidity, attributed to cluster decays, and reflect local conservation of quantum numbers in the hadronisation process. In hadron-hadron interactions, additional large long-range rapidity correlations are observed, wh...
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