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 metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment. European physical journal. C - particles and fields, C75(9), p. 407. EDP Sciences 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0
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Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged heavy long-lived particles, such as R -hadrons or charginos. These particles, if produced at the Large Hadron Collider, should be moving non-relativistically and are therefore identifiable through the measurement of an anomalously large specific energy loss in the ATLAS pixel detector. Measuring heavy long-lived particles through their track parameters in the vicinity of the interaction vertex provides sensitivity to metastable particles with lifetimes from 0.6 ns to 30 ns. A search for such particles with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.4 fb¯¹ of pp collisions at √ s= 8 TeV. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background expectation is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R -hadrons and chargino production are set. Gluino R -hadrons with 10 ns lifetime and masses up to 1185 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level, and so are charginos with 15 ns lifetime and masses up to 482 GeV.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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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: |
08 Sep 2016 08:29 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:58 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0 |
ArXiv ID: |
1506.05332 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwähnt |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.87616 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/87616 |
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