Search for new phenomena in high-mass diphoton final states using 37 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions collected at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

Searches for new phenomena in high-mass diphoton final states with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are presented. The analysis is based on pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.7 fb−1 at a centre-of-mass energy s=13 TeV recorded in 2015 and 2016. Searches are performed for resonances with spin 0, as predicted by theories with an extended Higgs sector, and for resonances with spin 2, using a warped extra-dimension model as a benchmark model, as well as for non-resonant signals, assuming a large extra-dimension scenario. No significant deviation from the Standard Model is observed. Upper limits are placed on the production cross section times branching ratio to two photons as a function of the resonance mass. In addition, lower limits are set on the ultraviolet cutoff scale in the large extra-dimensions model. © 2017 The Author(s)

• Author: M Aaboud; G Aad; B. Abbott; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; S. H. Abidi; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Caterina Doglioni; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Charles Kalderon; Edgar Kellermann; Else Lytken; Katja Mankinen; Ulf Mjörnmark; Ruth Pöttgen; Trine Poulsen; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2017
• Language: English
• Pages: 105-125
• Publication/Series: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
• Volume: 775
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.10.039
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 0370-2693