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Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at vs = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment
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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:10 authored by Benedict AllbrookeBenedict Allbrooke, Lily AsquithLily Asquith, Alessandro CerriAlessandro Cerri, C A Chavez Barajas, Antonella De SantoAntonella De Santo, Fabrizio SalvatoreFabrizio Salvatore, I Santoyo Castillo, K Suruliz, Mark SuttonMark Sutton, Iacopo Vivarelli, The ATLAS CollaborationMany 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 8.4 fb -1 -1 of pp collisions at s v =8 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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STFC Consolidated Grant Supplement; G1316; STFC-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL; ST/M000753/1
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European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsISSN
1434-6044Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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9Volume
75Page range
407Department affiliated with
- Physics and Astronomy Publications
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- Experimental Particle Physics Research Group Publications
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2017-02-15First Open Access (FOA) Date
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2017-02-14Usage metrics
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