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Search for events with a pair of displaced vertices from long-lived neutral particles decaying into hadronic jets in the ATLAS muon spectrometer in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review. D., vol. 106, no. 3
Publication date2022
First online date2022-08-09
Abstract

A search for events with two displaced vertices from long-lived particle (LLP) pairs using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses 139 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015–2018. The search employs techniques for reconstructing vertices of LLPs decaying to jets in the muon spectrometer displaced between 3 and 14 m with respect to the primary interaction vertex. The observed numbers of events are consistent with the expected background and limits for several benchmark signals are determined. For the Higgs boson with a mass of 125 GeV, the paper reports the first exclusion limits for branching fractions into neutral long-lived particles below 0.1%, while branching fractions above 10% are excluded at 95% confidence level for LLP proper lifetimes ranging from 4 cm to 72.4 m. In addition, the paper present the first results for the decay of LLPs into tt¯ in the ATLAS muon spectrometer.

Keywords
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Neutral particle: pair production
  • Muon: spectrometer
  • P p: scattering
  • Particle: long-lived
  • Jet: hadronic
  • Neutral particle: long-lived
  • Neutral particle: decay modes
  • Top: pair production
  • ATLAS
  • Benchmark
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Background
  • Neutral particle: lifetime
  • Higgs particle: branching ratio: upper limit
  • Track data analysis: vertex
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • S015XL
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ATLAS Collaboration. Search for events with a pair of displaced vertices from long-lived neutral particles decaying into hadronic jets in the ATLAS muon spectrometer in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV. In: Physical review. D., 2022, vol. 106, n° 3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.106.032005
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