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A search for the decays of stopped long-lived particles at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inThe journal of high energy physics, vol. 07, no. 7
Publication date2021
First online date2021-07-23
Abstract

A search for long-lived particles, which have come to rest within the ATLAS detector, is presented. The subsequent decays of these particles can produce high-momentum jets, resulting in large out-of-time energy deposits in the ATLAS calorimeters. These de- cays are detected using data collected during periods in the LHC bunch structure when collisions are absent. The analysed dataset is composed of events from proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS experiment during 2017 and 2018. The dataset used for this search corresponds to a total live time of 579 hours. The results of this search are used to derive lower limits on the mass of gluino R-hadrons, assuming a branching fraction $ \mathcal{B}\left(\overset{\sim }{g}\to q\overline{q}{\chi}_1^0\right) $ = 100%, with masses of up to 1.4 TeV excluded for gluino lifetimes of 10$^{−5}$ to 10$^{3}$ s.[graphic not available: see fulltext]

Keywords
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Particle: long-lived
  • Gluino: mass
  • Gluino: lifetime
  • P p: scattering
  • ATLAS
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • R-hadron
  • Gluino: branching ratio
  • Calorimeter
  • Structure
  • Mass: lower limit
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S015CA
  • S046GNO
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. A search for the decays of stopped long-lived particles at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: The journal of high energy physics, 2021, vol. 07, n° 7. doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)173
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://link.springer.com/10.1007/JHEP07(2021)173
Journal ISSN1029-8479
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