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The theoretical description of particles and their interactions is provided by the Standard Model of particle physics, also referred to as the Standard Model in this thesis. This theory was finalised in the 1970s, and has been extremely successful, with experimental results confirming the predictions of the Standard Model to increasing degrees of precision [1]. Despite the huge successes of the Standard Model, there are many reasons to believe that this theory is incomplete, and that there is new physics ‘beyond’ the Standard Model.

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    The majority of the limit contours were produced by reinterpreting model-independent limits, using the technique outlined by Dobrescu and Yu in [38]. The results published by the ATLAS Collaboration with a 20.3 \(\mathrm{fb}^{-1}\) dataset collected at \(\sqrt{s}=8\) TeV [70] were added using the same technique. The CMS Scouting result was added by digitising the limit contour in [73] using WebPlotDigitizer [74].

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Beresford, L.A. (2018). Theoretical Background. In: Searches for Dijet Resonances. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97520-7_2

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