LHC collider phenomenology of minimal universal extra dimensions

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We discuss the collider phenomenology of the model of Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions (MUED) at the Large hadron Collider (LHC). We derive analytical results for all relevant strong pair-production processes of two level 1 Kaluza–Klein partners and use them to validate and correct the existing MUED implementation in the fortran version of the Pythia event generator. We also develop a new implementation of the model in the C++ version of Pythia. We use our implementations in conjunction with the Checkmate package to derive the LHC bounds on MUED from a large number of published experimental analyses from Run 1 at the LHC. The previous version of this program (ACTU_v2_1) may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2009.08.008.

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