Search for black holes and sphalerons in high-multiplicity final states in proton-proton collisions at s=13$$ \sqrt{s}=13 $$ TeV

T. R. Fernandez Perez Tomei | L. F. Chaparro Sierra | C. A. Carrillo Montoya | C. F. González Hernández | M. K. Kiesel | A. A. Bin Anuar | J. M. Grados Luyando | S. M. Shaheen | R. K. Dewanjee | R. Frühwirth | Y. Chen | A. Schmidt | T. Esch | I. Marchesini | G. Bruno | R. Chierici | S. Perries | K. Piotrzkowski | N. Remortel | M. Flechl | J. Haller | C. Hensel | G. Kasieczka | A. Moraes | J. Sauvan | J. Schieck | C. Schwanenberger | K. Skovpen | C. Leloup | W. Adam | D. Bloch | P. David | P. Eerola | J. Hrubec | P. Jarry | D. Liko | I. Mikulec | L. Mirabito | M. Pol | S. Tavernier | T. Tuuva | W. Doninck | M. Voutilainen | A. Giammanco | V. Lemaître | A. Mertens | A. Grohsjean | A. Sirunyan | A. Tumasyan | T. Bergauer | M. Dragicevic | J. Erö | M. Jeitler | H. Rohringer | R. Schöfbeck | A. Taurok | W. Waltenberger | C. Wulz | T. Cornelis | E. Wolf | X. Janssen | H. Haevermaet | P. Mechelen | F. Blekman | P. Mulders | G. Onsem | B. Clerbaux | G. Lentdecker | L. Thomas | P. Vanlaer | K. Beernaert | A. Marinov | M. Tytgat | E. Yazgan | N. Zaganidis | C. Delaere | G. Alves | W. Carvalho | E. Costa | L. Mundim | H. Nogima | A. Santoro | A. Sznajder | C. Bernardes | E. Gregores | P. Mercadante | S. Novaes | S. Padula | P. Iaydjiev | M. Rodozov | G. Sultanov | A. Dimitrov | R. Hadjiiska | L. Litov | B. Pavlov | P. Petkov | J. Bian | H. Chen | C. Jiang | J. Tao | C. Asawatangtrakuldee | Y. Ban | S. Qian | N. Godinovic | D. Lelas | I. Puljak | Z. Antunović | V. Brigljevic | K. Kadija | J. Luetić | A. Attikis | J. Mousa | C. Nicolaou | F. Ptochos | P. Razis | Y. Assran | M. Kadastik | M. Raidal | V. Karimäki | R. Kinnunen | T. Lampén | K. Lassila-Perini | S. Lehti | T. Lindén | P. Luukka | T. Mäenpää | E. Tuominen | J. Tuominiemi | M. Besançon | M. Déjardin | D. Denegri | F. Ferri | S. Ganjour | A. Givernaud | P. Gras | E. Locci | J. Malclès | J. Rander | A. Rosowsky | M. Titov | F. Beaudette | P. Busson | C. Charlot | S. Elgammal | C. Ochando | R. Salerno | Y. Sirois | C. Veelken | A. Zabi | J. Andrea | J. Brom | E. Chabert | C. Collard | E. Conte | J. Fontaine | D. Gelé | U. Goerlach | A. Bihan | P. Hove | S. Beauceron | O. Bondu | G. Boudoul | H. Brun | D. Contardo | P. Depasse | H. Mamouni | J. Fay | S. Gascon | M. Gouzevitch | B. Ille | M. Lethuillier | S. Viret | L. Feld | K. Klein | A. Perieanu | B. Wittmer | V. Zhukov | M. Erdmann | A. Güth | T. Hebbeker | C. Heidemann | K. Hoepfner | M. Merschmeyer | A. Meyer | H. Reithler | D. Teyssier | V. Cherepanov | G. Flügge | B. Kargoll | T. Kress | A. Nowack | O. Pooth | A. Stahl | U. Behrens | K. Borras | L. Calligaris | A. Campbell | G. Eckerlin | A. Geiser | J. Hauk | H. Jung | M. Kasemann | C. Kleinwort | D. Krücker | W. Lange | W. Lohmann | R. Mankel | I. Melzer-Pellmann | J. Mnich | D. Pitzl | A. Raspereza | R. Walsh | C. Wissing | C. Autermann | V. Blobel | H. Kirschenmann | R. Klanner | P. Schleper | M. Guthoff | T. Müller | A. Singh | S. Ahuja | H. Bakhshiansohi | E. Gallo | F. Romeo | M. Musich | M. Ahmad | C. Bernet | A. Hinzmann | G. Mavromanolakis | M. Nguyen | N. Chanon | A. Starodumov | B. Bilin | S. Lowette | M. Chen | D. Dobur | D. Wang | B. Dorney | H. Malbouisson | D. Trocino | C. Contreras-Campana | D. Ferencek | C. Florez | C. Avila | F. Couderc | G. Grenier | L. Li | A. Meyer | R. Fischer | V. Mossolov | P. Saxena | F. Costanza | S. Brochet | S. Khalil | P. Gunnellini | A. Spiezia | D. Duchardt | A. Abdulsalam | M. Finger | Y. Mao | J. D'Hondt | J. Lange | S. Mukherjee | A. Popov | I. Krätschmer | D. Leggat | Z. Tsamalaidze | A. Cabrera | D. Bertsche | J. Faure | K. Wichmann | I. Laktineh | S. Schumann | E. Garutti | G. Hamel de Monchenault | W. Verbeke | H. Rykaczewski | J. Zhao | Z. Xu | M. Rieger | X. Gao | S. Zhang | B. Vermassen | T. Dreyer | R. Goldouzian | S. Laurila | C. Roskas | G. Ortona | E. Asilar | O. Zenaiev | M. Kolosova | M. Thiel | O. Behnke | I. Kucher | J. Knolle | C. Pistone | M. Lipinski | C. Caputo | B. Francois | M. Rauch | A. 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