Published January 10, 2016
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A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons
Abstract
A search for the pair production of new light bosons, each decaying into a pair of muons, is performed with the CMS experiment at the LHC, using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.7 fb^(−1) collected in proton–proton collisions at center-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV. No excess is observed in the data relative to standard model background expectation and a model independent upper limit on the product of the cross section, branching fraction, and acceptance is derived. The results are compared with two benchmark models, the first one in the context of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model, and the second one in scenarios containing a hidden sector, including those predicting a nonnegligible light boson lifetime.
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© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Open Access funded by SCOAP³ - Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics Under a Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by Elsevier B.V. Received 31 May 2015, Revised 20 October 2015, Accepted 25 October 2015, Available online 3 November 2015. We would like to thank J. Ruderman for his guidance with the theoretically motivated benchmark samples of dark SUSY. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centres and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and National Science Foundation(USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie programme and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste); MIUR project 20108T4XTM (Italy); the Thalis and Aristeia programmes cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; and the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund.Attached Files
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- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES and CSF (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland
- CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- General Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT)
- OTKA and NIH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- MOE and UM (Malaysia)
- CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- MBIE (New Zealand)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- JINR (Dubna)
- MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia)
- MESTD (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand)
- TÜBİTAK
- NASU and SFFR (Ukraine)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie-Curie programme
- Leventis Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic
- Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
- HOMING PLUS programme of the Foundation for Polish Science
- Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
- Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste)
- 20108T4XTM
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR)
- Thalis and Aristeia programmes
- Qatar National Research Fund National Priorities Research Program
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Helsinki Institute of Physics
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)
- European Research Council (ERC)
- EPLANET (European Union)
- Regional Development Fund
- European Social Fund
- Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
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