Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionization energy loss in pp collisions at s=13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionization energy loss in pp collisions at s=13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This paper presents a search for massive charged long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at s=13  TeV at the LHC using the ATLAS experiment. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2  fb-1. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of massive charged long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons. These massive particles are expected to be produced with a velocity significantly below the speed of light, and therefore to have a specific ionization higher than any Standard Model particle of unit charge at high momenta. The Pixel subsystem of the ATLAS detector is used to measure the ionization energy loss of reconstructed charged particles and to search for such highly ionizing particles. The search presented here has much greater sensitivity than a similar search performed using the ATLAS detector in the s=8  TeV data set, thanks to the increase in expected signal cross section due to the higher center-of-mass energy of collisions, to an upgraded detector with a new silicon layer close to the interaction point, and to analysis improvements. No significant deviation from Standard Model background expectations is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadron production cross sections and masses are set. Gluino R-hadrons with lifetimes above 0.4 ns and decaying to qq plus a 100 GeV neutralino are excluded at the 95% confidence level, with lower mass limit ranging between 740 and 1590 GeV. In the case of stable R-hadrons the lower mass limit at the 95% confidence level is 1570 GeV.n

Název v anglickém jazyce

Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionization energy loss in pp collisions at s=13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment

Popis výsledku anglicky

This paper presents a search for massive charged long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at s=13  TeV at the LHC using the ATLAS experiment. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2  fb-1. Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of massive charged long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons. These massive particles are expected to be produced with a velocity significantly below the speed of light, and therefore to have a specific ionization higher than any Standard Model particle of unit charge at high momenta. The Pixel subsystem of the ATLAS detector is used to measure the ionization energy loss of reconstructed charged particles and to search for such highly ionizing particles. The search presented here has much greater sensitivity than a similar search performed using the ATLAS detector in the s=8  TeV data set, thanks to the increase in expected signal cross section due to the higher center-of-mass energy of collisions, to an upgraded detector with a new silicon layer close to the interaction point, and to analysis improvements. No significant deviation from Standard Model background expectations is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadron production cross sections and masses are set. Gluino R-hadrons with lifetimes above 0.4 ns and decaying to qq plus a 100 GeV neutralino are excluded at the 95% confidence level, with lower mass limit ranging between 740 and 1590 GeV. In the case of stable R-hadrons the lower mass limit at the 95% confidence level is 1570 GeV.n

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

BF - Elementární částice a fyzika vysokých energií

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Physical Review D

ISSN

2470-0010

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

93

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

11

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

000378819900002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84977628776