Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in pp collisions at s=8TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.02.015

Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in pp collisions at s=8TeV

ATLAS Collaboration

Aix Marseille Université
Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica, Institute Of Physics
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Department of Physics
Oklahoma State University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University
Department of Physics
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
European Organization for Nuclear Research
Department of Physics
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine
INFN Sezione di Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics
King's College London
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science
Agh University of Science and Technology Faculty of Computer Science
Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Yale University
Fakultät für Physik
Universität München
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Institute of Physics
University of Belgrade
Lisboa
Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE
University of Granada
Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics
University of Bern
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Fysiska Institutionen
Lund University
International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics
University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
INFN Sezione di Bologna
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia
University of Bologna
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Victoria
LTHE (UMR 5564 CNRS/IRD/Université de Grenoble)
Instituto de Física La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Section de Physique
University of Geneva
Physics Department
National Technical University of Athens
Dipartimento di Chimica
and Physics University of Udine
Sezione INFN di Milano
University of Chicago
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Birmingham
Lancaster University
Oliver Lodge Laboratory
University of Liverpool
INFN Sezione di Napoli
Dipartimento di Fisica
University of Naples Federico II
Niels Bohr Institutet
Universités Paris VI and VII
Université Savoie Mont Blanc

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Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is used to search for the decay of a scalar boson to a pair of long-lived particles, neutral under the Standard Model gauge group, in 20.3fb-1 of data collected in proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV. This search is sensitive to long-lived particles that decay to Standard Model particles producing jets at the outer edge of the ATLAS electromagnetic calorimeter or inside the hadronic calorimeter. No significant excess of events is observed. Limits are reported on the product of the scalar boson production cross section times branching ratio into long-lived neutral particles as a function of the proper lifetime of the particles. Limits are reported for boson masses from 100 GeV to 900 GeV, and a long-lived neutral particle mass from 10 GeV to 150 GeV.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-34
Number of pages	20
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	743
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.02.015
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

High-energy collider experiment
Long-lived neutral particle
New physics

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Search for pair-produced long-lived neutral particles decaying to jets in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter in pp collisions at s=8TeV

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