Search for narrow resonances in dijet final states at s=8 TeV with the novel CMS technique of data scouting

Abstract

Narrow resonances decaying into dijet final states are searched with the data obtained from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.8 f b−1. The data were collected with the CMS detector using a novel technique called data scouting. This novel technique allows collecting the data at a rate of 1 kHz in which the events only containing certain properties of jets. The measured dijet mass spectrum shows no evidence of a narrow resonances. Upper limits on the resonance cross sections are given as a function of the resonance mass, and also compared with a variety of models predicting narrow resonances. These limits are then translated into upper limits on the coupling of a leptophobic resonance Z′B to quarks, improving on the results obtained by previous experiments for the mass range from 500 to 800 GeV.