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Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Oct 14;95(16):161602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161602. Epub 2005 Oct 13.

Search for large extra spatial dimensions in dimuon production with the d0 detector.

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Affiliations

  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 16241783 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.161602

Abstract

We present the results of a search for the effects of large extra spatial dimensions in pp collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV in events containing a pair of energetic muons. The data correspond to 246 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. Good agreement with the expected background was found, yielding no evidence for large extra dimensions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the fundamental Planck scale between 0.85 and 1.27 TeV within several formalisms. These are the most stringent limits achieved in the dimuon channel to date.

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