https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11687-5
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
A search for new physics in central exclusive production using the missing mass technique with the CMS detector and the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria
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Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universidade Estadual Paulista, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil
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Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7 D, Arica, Chile
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Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
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State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
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Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
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Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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University of Split, Faculty of Science, Split, Croatia
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Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb, Croatia
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Egyptian Network of High Energy Physics, Cairo, Egypt
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Center for High Energy Physics (CHEP-FU), Fayoum University, El-Fayoum, Egypt
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National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki, Finland
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Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS/IN2P3, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France
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Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I ), Villeurbanne, France
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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RWTH Aachen University, I. Physikalisches Institut, Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut B, Aachen, Germany
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (INPP), NCSR Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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University of Ioánnina, Ioánnina, Greece
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MTA-ELTE Lendület CMS Particle and Nuclear Physics Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
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University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Madras, India
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Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-A, Mumbai, India
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research-B, Mumbai, India
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National Institute of Science Education and Research, An OCC of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, India
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Università di Bari, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Catania, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Firenze, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Napoli, Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy; Università della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; Università G. Marconi, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy; Università di Trento, Trento, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Perugia, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Università di Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Torino, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Trieste, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Chonnam National University, Institute for Universe and Elementary Particles, Kwangju, Korea
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Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
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Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Kyung Hee University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea
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Sejong University, Seoul, Korea
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Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea
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Yonsei University, Department of Physics, Seoul, Korea
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Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East (AUM), Dasman, Kuwait
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Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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National Centre for Particle Physics, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Universidad de Sonora (UNISON), Hermosillo, Mexico
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Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
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Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
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National Centre for Physics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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National Centre for Nuclear Research, Swierk, Poland
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Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisbon, Portugal
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VINCA Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Universidad de Oviedo, Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Espaciales de Asturias (ICTEA), Oviedo, Spain
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Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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University of Ruhuna, Department of Physics, Matara, Sri Lanka
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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ETH Zurich-Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics (IPA), Zurich, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan
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National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan
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Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Physics Department, Science and Art Faculty, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, Ankara, Turkey
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Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Institute for Scintillation Materials of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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National Science Centre, Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, USA
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
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State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR, USA
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USA
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Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
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Texas A &M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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Authors Affiliated with an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Institute of Basic and Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
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Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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UFMS, Nova Andradina, Brazil
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The University of the State of Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Nanjing Normal University Department of Physics, Nanjing, China
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The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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An Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Suez University, Suez, Egypt
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British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
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Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Erzincan, Turkey
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University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
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Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
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Forschungszentrum Jülich, Juelich, Germany
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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Karoly Robert Campus, MATE Institute of Technology, Gyongyos, Hungary
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Physics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
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Universitatea Babes-Bolyai - Facultatea de Fizica, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India
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UPES - University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India
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University of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India
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University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
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Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India
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IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar, India
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Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran
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Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt
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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Bologna, Italy
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Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e di Struttura Della Materia, Catania, Italy
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Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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Università di Napoli ’Federico II’, Naples, Italy
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Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Perugia, Italy
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Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Mexico City, Mexico
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IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, Nilaveli, Sri Lanka
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics, Vienna, Austria
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Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules, IN2P3-CNRS, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Near East University, Research Center of Experimental Health Science, Mersin, Turkey
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Konya Technical University, Konya, Turkey
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Izmir Bakircay University, Izmir, Turkey
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Adiyaman University, Adiyaman, Turkey
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Istanbul Gedik University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
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Bozok Universitetesi Rektörlügü, Yozgat, Turkey
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Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Milli Savunma University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey
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Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa, Faculty of Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
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Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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IPPP Durham University, Durham, UK
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Monash University, Faculty of Science, Clayton, Australia
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Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, USA
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Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Turkey
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California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, USA
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Bingol University, Bingol, Turkey
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Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Sinop University, Sinop, Turkey
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Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
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Institute of Modern Physics and Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE)-Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Texas A &M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
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Another Institute or International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Imperial College, London, UK
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Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic
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Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Wigner Research Centre for Physics, RMKI, Budapest, Hungary
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MATE Institute of Technology KRC, Gyöngyös, Hungary
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INFN Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica di Bari, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Università degli Studi di Siena and Gruppo Collegato INFN di Siena, Siena, Italy
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Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza (AGH) University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA, USA
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Authors Affiliated with an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement With CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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INRNE-BAS, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Department of Atomic Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
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SLAC, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Authors Affiliated with an Institute or an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
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cms-publication-committee-chair@cern.ch
Received:
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March
2023
Accepted:
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May
2023
Published online:
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September
2023
A generic search is presented for the associated production of a Z boson or a photon with an additional unspecified massive particle X, 
, in proton-tagged events from proton–proton collisions at 
, recorded in 2017 with the CMS detector and the CMS-TOTEM precision proton spectrometer. The missing mass spectrum is analysed in the 600–1600 GeV range and a fit is performed to search for possible deviations from the background expectation. No significant excess in data with respect to the background predictions has been observed. Model-independent upper limits on the visible production cross section of are set.
M.V. Lokajíček, M. Macrí, N. Tonon, P. Baillon, G. R. Snow.
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