Franconi, Laura; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Anders, John Kenneth; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio; Weston, Thomas Daniel (2019). Search for the Production of a Long-Lived Neutral Particle Decaying within the ATLAS Hadronic Calorimeter in Association with a Z Boson from pp Collisions at √s=13 TeV. Physical review letters, 122(15) American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801
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This Letter presents a search for the production of a long-lived neutral particle (Zd) decaying within the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, in association with a standard model (SM) Z boson produced via an intermediate scalar boson, where Z→ℓ+ℓ− (ℓ=e, μ). The data used were collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 pp collisions with a center-of-mass energy of √s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1±0.8 fb−1. No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. Limits on the production cross section of the scalar boson times its decay branching fraction into the long-lived neutral particle are derived as a function of the mass of the intermediate scalar boson, the mass of the long-lived neutral particle, and its cτ from a few centimeters to one hundred meters. In the case that the intermediate scalar boson is the SM Higgs boson, its decay branching fraction to a long-lived neutral particle with a cτ approximately between 0.1 and 7 m is excluded with a 95% confidence level up to 10% for mZd between 5 and 15 GeV.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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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: |
Franconi, Laura, Miucci, Antonio, Merlassino, Claudia, Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Anders, John Kenneth, Beck, Hans Peter, Ereditato, Antonio, Weston, Thomas Daniel |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
0031-9007 |
Publisher: |
American Physical Society |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
BORIS Import LHEP |
Date Deposited: |
23 Jun 2020 10:23 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:38 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801 |
Additional Information: |
Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner AutorInnen namentlich erwaehnt; The ATLAS collaboration |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.143628 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/143628 |
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