Search for Production of Resonant States in the Photon-Jet Mass Distribution Using pp Collisions at √s=7  TeV Collected by the ATLAS Detector

This Letter describes a model-independent search for the production of new resonant states in photon+jet events in 2.11  fb[superscript -1] of proton-proton collisions at √s=7  TeV. We compare the photon+jet mass distribution to a background model derived from data and find consistency with the back...

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Main Author: Taylor, Frank E. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-07-12T18:45:16Z.
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