Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

New metastable massive particles with electric and colour charge are features of many theories beyond the Standard Model. A search is performed for long-lived gluino-based R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 31 pb-1. We search...

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Autors principals: Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdelalim, A, Abdesselam, A, Abdinov, O, Abi, B, Abolins, M, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Acerbia, E, Acharya, B, Adams, D, Addy, T, Adelman, J, Aderholz, M, Adomeit, S, Adragna, P, Adye, T, Aefsky, S, Aguilar-Saavedra, J, Aharrouche, M, Ahlen, S, Ahles, F, Ahmad, A
Format: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicat: 2012
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Sumari:New metastable massive particles with electric and colour charge are features of many theories beyond the Standard Model. A search is performed for long-lived gluino-based R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 31 pb-1. We search for evidence of particles that have come to rest in the ATLAS detector and decay at some later time during the periods in the LHC bunch structure without proton-proton collisions. No significant deviations from the expected backgrounds are observed, and a cross-section limit is set. It can be interpreted as excluding gluino-based R-hadrons with masses less than 341 GeV at the 95 % C. L., for lifetimes from 10-5 to 103 seconds and a neutralino mass of 100 GeV. © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.

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