Other searches at LEP

During the year 2000, LEP has been operated at centre-of-mass energies up to sqrt(s) = 209 GeV. New particle searches have been performed using these data samples. Model independent limits on the production cross-sections and mass limits in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) assuming R-parity violation and in the context of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking theories (GMSB) are presented. Searches for technicolor, excited leptons and leptoquarks are also reviewed.Comment: Proceedings of the Conference: "QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions", Rencontres de Moriond, 18-24 March 200

Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV

Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (pT) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (HT), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb[superscript −1]. The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MadGraph + pythia and sherpa, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BlackHat + sherpa. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the pT distributions of the leading jets at high pT values, the distributions of the HT at high-HT and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values.United States. Dept. of EnergyNational Science Foundation (U.S.)Alfred P. Sloan Foundatio