Measurement of Dijet Angular Distributions at √s = 1.96 TeV and Searches for Quark Compositeness and Extra Spatial Dimensions

Authors

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

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in Physical Review Letters 103, 191803 (2009). Copyright © 2009 The American Physical Society. Used by permission.

Abstract

We present the first measurement of dijet angular distributions in pp collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. The measurement is based on a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0:7 fb^-1 collected with the D0 detector. Dijet angular distributions have been measured over a range of dijet masses, from 0.25 TeV to above 1.1 TeV. The data are in good agreement with the predictions of perturbative QCD and are used to constrain new physics models including quark compositeness, large extra dimensions, and TeV^-1 scale extra dimensions. For all models considered, we set the most stringent direct limits to date.