Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions
We performed a signature-based search for long-lived charged massive particles produced in 1.0 fb[superscript -1] of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector using a high transverse-momentum (pT) muon trigger. The search used time of flight to isolate slowly moving, high-...
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author | Xie, Si Knuteson, Bruce O. Henderson, C. Hahn, Kristian Allan Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Choudalakis, Georgios Paus, Christoph M. E. Makhoul, Khaldoun Goncharov, Maxim Bauer, Gerry P |
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description | We performed a signature-based search for long-lived charged massive particles produced in 1.0 fb[superscript -1] of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector using a high transverse-momentum (pT) muon trigger. The search used time of flight to isolate slowly moving, high-p[subscript T] particles. One event passed our selection cuts with an expected background of 1.9±0.2 events. We set an upper bound on the production cross section and, interpreting this result within the context of a stable scalar top-quark model, set a lower limit on the particle mass of 249 GeV/c[superscript 2] at 95% C.L. |
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spelling | mit-1721.1/518722023-02-26T10:55:57Z Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp̅ Collisions Xie, Si Knuteson, Bruce O. Henderson, C. Hahn, Kristian Allan Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Choudalakis, Georgios Paus, Christoph M. E. Makhoul, Khaldoun Goncharov, Maxim Bauer, Gerry P Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science Paus, Christoph M. E. Xie, Si Makhoul, K. Knuteson, Bruce O. Henderson, C. Hahn, Kristian Allan Goncharov, M. Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Choudalakis, Georgios Bauer, Gerry P. Paus, Christoph M. E. We performed a signature-based search for long-lived charged massive particles produced in 1.0 fb[superscript -1] of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, collected with the CDF II detector using a high transverse-momentum (pT) muon trigger. The search used time of flight to isolate slowly moving, high-p[subscript T] particles. One event passed our selection cuts with an expected background of 1.9±0.2 events. We set an upper bound on the production cross section and, interpreting this result within the context of a stable scalar top-quark model, set a lower limit on the particle mass of 249 GeV/c[superscript 2] at 95% C.L. Academy of Finland Slovak R&D Agency Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain Russian Foundation for Basic Research Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS Royal Society, United Kingdom Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom Korean Research Foundation Korean Science and Engineering Foundation Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Swiss National Science Foundation National Science Council of the Republic of China Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare National Science Foundation United States Department of Energy 2010-03-01T21:25:46Z 2010-03-01T21:25:46Z 2009-07 2009-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-9007 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51872 CDF Collaboration et al. “Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions.” Physical Review Letters 103.2 (2009): 021802. © 2009 The American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.021802 Physical Review Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
spellingShingle | Xie, Si Knuteson, Bruce O. Henderson, C. Hahn, Kristian Allan Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo Choudalakis, Georgios Paus, Christoph M. E. Makhoul, Khaldoun Goncharov, Maxim Bauer, Gerry P Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title | Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title_full | Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title_fullStr | Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title_full_unstemmed | Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title_short | Search for Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in 1.96 TeV pp-bar Collisions |
title_sort | search for long lived massive charged particles in 1 96 tev pp bar collisions |
url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51872 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211 |
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