Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at $${\sqrt{s} = 8}$$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Marseilles (France). Centre for Particle Physics of Marseilles (CPPM); et al.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Contributing Org.:
- ATLAS Collaboration
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1222752
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1222763; OSTI ID: 1223293; OSTI ID: 1223295; OSTI ID: 1409416
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231; SC00112704; AC02-98CH10886; AC02-76CH00016; SC0012704; AC03-76SF00098
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Aad, G. Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at ${\sqrt{s} = 8}$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0.
Aad, G. Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at ${\sqrt{s} = 8}$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment. United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0
Aad, G. Thu .
"Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at ${\sqrt{s} = 8}$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment". United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1222752.
@article{osti_1222752,
title = {Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at ${\sqrt{s} = 8}$ s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment},
author = {Aad, G.},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0},
journal = {European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields},
number = 9,
volume = 75,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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