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

Abstract

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 10^3 seconds and a neutralino mass of 100 GeV.


Tutti gli autori

  • G. AAD , M. BIANCO , G. CHIODINI , E. GORINI , M. PRIMAVERA , S. SPAGNOLO , A. VENTURA , ET AL.

Titolo volume/Rivista

THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS


Anno di pubblicazione

2012

ISSN

1434-6044

ISBN

Non Disponibile


Numero di citazioni Wos

4

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018


Numero di citazioni Scopus

7

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

28/04/2018


Settori ERC

Non Disponibile

Codici ASJC

Non Disponibile