Search for Randall-Sundrum Gravitons with1 fb^-1 of Data from pp Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV

Authors

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Gregory R. Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
D0 Collaboration

Date of this Version

March 2008

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 091802 (2008). http://prl.aps.org. Copyright © 2008 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We search for decays of Kaluza-Klein excitations of the graviton in the Randall-Sundrum model of extra dimensions to e⁺e^- and γγ in 1 fb^-1 of pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction, which translate into lower limits on the mass of the lightest excitation between 300 and 900 GeV for values of the coupling k/M_P1 between 0.01 and 0.1.