Contact interactions in the dimuon channel at the LHC

Publication date: Sun, Oct 09, 2011 - 7:41am
Graduate student Emily Thompson and Professor Stéphane Willocq performed the first search for contact interactions at the LHC in the dimuon channel using data collected during the 2010 pp collision run with the ATLAS detector. The limits placed on the compositeness scale Lambda are the most stringent to date.
The results have been published in the July edition of Physical Review D Rapid Communications: Phys. Rev. D 84, 011101 (2011) and arXiv:1104.4398. ...more