Searches for heavy long-lived sleptons and R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

Abstract

A search for long-lived particles is performed using a data sample of 4.7 fb−1 from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. No excess is observed above the estimated background and lower limits, at 95% confidence level, are set on the mass of the long-lived particles in different scenarios, based on their possible interactions in the inner detector, the calorimeters and the muon spectrometer. Long-lived staus in gauge-mediated SUSY-breaking models are excluded up to a mass of 300 GeV for tanbeta 5-20. Directly produced long-lived sleptons are excluded up to a mass of 278 GeV. R-hadrons, composites of gluino (stop, sbottom) and light quarks, are excluded up to a mass of 985 GeV (683 GeV, 612 GeV) when using a generic interaction model. Additionally two sets of limits on R-hadrons are obtained that are less sensitive to the interaction model for R-hadrons. One set of limits is obtained using only the inner detector and calorimeter observables, and a second set of limits is obtained based on the inner detector alone.


Tutti gli autori

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

Titolo volume/Rivista

PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B


Anno di pubblicazione

2013

ISSN

0370-2693

ISBN

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Numero di citazioni Wos

31

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22/04/2018


Numero di citazioni Scopus

44

Ultimo Aggiornamento Citazioni

22/04/2018


Settori ERC

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Codici ASJC

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