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CMS-PAS-EXO-22-024
Search for new physics in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV
Abstract: Results are presented from a search for new physics in high-mass diphoton events from proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV. The data set was collected in 2016-2018 with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$ ^{-1} $. Events with a diphoton invariant mass greater than 500 GeV are considered. Two different techniques are used to predict the standard model backgrounds: parametric fits to the smoothly-falling background and a first-principles calculation of the standard model diphoton spectrum at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. The data are used to constrain the production of heavy Higgs bosons, Randall-Sundrum gravitons, the large extra dimensions model of Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali, and the continuum clockwork mechanism.
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