摘要:
A search for microscopic black hole production and decay in pp collisions at a centerof-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 large total transverse energy are analyzed for the presence of multiple highenergy jets, leptons, and photons, typical of a signal expected from a microscopic black hole. Good agreement with the expected standard model backgrounds, dominated by QCD multijet production, is observed for various final-state multiplicities. Limits on the minimum black hole mass are set, in the range 3.5 – 4.5 TeV, for a variety of parameters in a model with large extra dimensions, along with model-independent limits on new physics in these final states. These are the first direct limits on black hole production at a particle accelerator. Submitted to Physics Letters B ∗ See Appendix A for the list of collaboration members1 One of the exciting predictions of theoretical models with extra spatial dimensions and lowscale
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