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    Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment

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    Aad, G; Abbott, B; Abdallah, J; Abdinov, O; Aben, R; Abolins, M; AbouZeid, OS; Abramowicz, H; Abreu, H; Abreu, R; ...
    Date
    2015-09-03
    Source Title
    European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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    SPRINGER
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Brennan, Amelia; Nuti, Francesco; Milesi, Marco; Taylor, Geoffrey; TAN, KONG GUAN; ZANZI, DANIELE; Jennens, David; Dawe, Edmund; Barberio, Luigia; Kubota, Takashi; ...
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    School of Physics
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    Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B. S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D. L., Adelman, J., Adomeit, S., Adye, T., Affolder, A. A., Agatonovic-Jovin, T. ,... Zwalinski, L. (2015). Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 75 (9), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/257789
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    10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0
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    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4623956
    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 [Formula: see text] fb[Formula: see text] of pp collisions at [Formula: see text] 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 [Formula: see text] confidence level, and so are charginos with 15 ns lifetime and masses up to 482 GeV.

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