ATLAS collaboration (2909 authors)Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan AntonioAmor Dos Santos, Susana PatriciaAnjos, NunoCantrill, RobertCarvalho, JoãoCastro, Nuno FilipeConde Muiño, PatriciaCosta Batalha Pedro, RuteDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario JoseDo Valle Wemans, AndréFiolhais, MiguelGalhardo, BrunoGomes, AgostinhoGonçalo, RicardoJorge, PedroLopes, LourencoMachado Miguens, JoanaMaio, AméliaManeira, JoséMarques, CarlosOnofre, AntónioPalma, AlbertoPina, João AntonioPinto, BelmiroSantos, HelenaSaraiva, JoãoSilva, JoséTavares Delgado, AdemarVeloso, FilipeWolters, Helmut2019-02-032019-02-032014-03-05http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091804http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26499This Letter presents a search for quantum black-hole production using 20.3 inverse fb of data collected with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at the LHC at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV. The quantum black holes are assumed to decay into a lepton (electron or muon) and a jet. In either channel, no event with a lepton-jet invariant mass of 3.5 TeV or more is observed, consistent with the expected background. Limits are set on the product of cross sections and branching fractions for the lepton+jet final states of quantum black holes produced in a search region for invariant masses above 1 TeV. The combined 95% confidence level upper limit on this product for quantum black holes with threshold mass above 3.5 TeV is 0.18 fb. This limit constrains the threshold quantum black-hole mass to be above 5.3 TeV in the model considered.engSearch for Quantum Black Hole Production in High-Invariant-Mass Lepton$+$Jet Final States Using $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV and the ATLAS Detectorjournal article2019-02-03