Speaker
Stefan Antonius Schmitz
(Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))
Description
Additional heavy leptonic resonances (e.g. Z', W') are predicted by a number of new physics models. Models with extra dimensions include not only the possibility for resonant signatures like predicted in RS scenarios, but might also result in a non-resonant enhancement of high mass lepton pairs as suggested by the ADD model of large extra dimensions.
CMS has performed searches for both resonant and non-resonant signatures of new physics in the lepton mass spectra. Most of the presented results are based on the full 2012 dataset of proton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. No evidence for event contributions beyond the standard model is observed, and the results are interpreted in terms of limits on model parameters in the considered new physics scenarios.
Author
Manfred Jeitler
(Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))
