Chatrchyan, S.Işıldak, Bora2014-11-172014-11-172013-03-011550-2368http://hdl.handle.net/10679/586https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.052017Results are reported of a search for a deviation in the jet production cross section from the prediction of perturbative quantum chromodynamics at next-to-leading order. The search is conducted using a 7 TeV proton-proton data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb(-1), collected with the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A deviation could arise from interactions characterized by a mass scale Lambda too high to be probed directly at the LHC. Such phenomena can be modeled as contact interactions. No evidence of a deviation is found. Using the CLs criterion, lower limits are set on Lambda of 9.9 TeV and 14.3 TeVat 95% confidence level for models with destructive and constructive interference, respectively. Limits obtained with a Bayesian method are also reported.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessArticle875052017-1052017-1900031667500000110.1103/PhysRevD.87.052017Compositeness ScalesReference PriorsCross-SectionQuarkLimits