Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

ATLAS, Collaboration; Beck, Hans Peter; Cervelli, Alberto; Ereditato, Antonio; Haug, Sigve; Kabana, Sonja; Meloni, Federico; Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien; Pretzl, Klaus-Peter; Stramaglia, Maria Elena; Stucci, Stefania; Weber, Michael (2015). Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector. European physical journal. C - particles and fields, C75(8), p. 362. EDP Sciences 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3534-2

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A search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles is performed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data collected in 2012 at √s=8 TeV from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb¯¹ are examined. Particles producing anomalously high ionisation, consistent with long-lived massive particles with electric charges from |q|=2e to |q|=6e are searched for. No signal candidate events are observed, and 95\% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as lower mass limits for a Drell--Yan production model. The mass limits range between 660 and 785 GeV.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC)
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP)

UniBE Contributor:

Beck, Hans Peter, Cervelli, Alberto, Ereditato, Antonio, Haug, Sigve, Meloni, Federico, Mullier, Geoffrey André Adrien, Pretzl, Klaus-Peter, Stramaglia, Maria Elena, Stucci, Stefania, Weber, Michele

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

1434-6044

Publisher:

EDP Sciences

Language:

English

Submitter:

Annette Krebs-Wegenast

Date Deposited:

07 Sep 2016 13:47

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:58

Publisher DOI:

10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3534-2

ArXiv ID:

1504.04188

Additional Information:

Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.87635

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/87635

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