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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

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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  1. National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Marseilles (France). Centre for Particle Physics of Marseilles (CPPM); et al.
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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

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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.
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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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