Search for decays of stopped, long-lived particles from 7 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration, Wahid Bhimji, Philip Clark, Robert Harrington, Victoria Martin

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Abstract

New metastable massive particles with electric and colour charge are features of many theories beyond the Standard Model. A search is performed for long-lived gluino-based R-hadrons with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 31 pb^-1. We search for evidence of particles that have come to rest in the ATLAS detector and decay at some later time during the periods in the LHC bunch structure without proton-proton collisions. No significant deviations from the expected backgrounds are observed, and a cross-section limit is set. It can be interpreted as excluding gluino-based R-hadrons with masses less than 341 GeV at the 95% C.L., for lifetimes from 10^-5 to 10^3 seconds and a neutralino mass of 100 GeV.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1965
Number of pages1965
JournalThe European Physical Journal C
VolumeC72
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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