Search for Quark Contact Interactions in Dijet Angular Distributions in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV Measured with the ATLAS Detector

THE ATLAS COLL. , G. AAD; MARIA TERESA DOVA ET AL.

PHYSICS LETTERS B

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2011 vol. 694 p. 327 - 345

0370-2693

Dijet angular distributions from the first LHC pp collisions at center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV have been measured with the ATLAS detector. The dataset used for this analysis represents an integrated luminosity of 3.1 pb-1. Dijet $chi$ distributions and centrality ratios have been measured up to dijet masses of 2.8 TeV, and found to be in good agreement with Standard Model predictions. Analysis of the $chi$ distributions excludes quark contact interactions with a compositeness scale $Lambda$ below 3.4 TeV, at 95% confidence level, significantly exceeding previous limits.