Search for long-lived neutral particles in pp collisions at √s=13TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS calorimeter

M Aaboud, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Lene Bryngemark, Eric Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Kristian Gregersen, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Charles Kalderon, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Caterina Marcon, Ulf Mjörnmark, Geoffrey Mullier, Ruth Pöttgen, Trine PoulsenEleni Skorda, Oxana Smirnova, L Zwalinski, ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

This paper describes a search for pairs of neutral, long-lived particles decaying in the ATLAS calorimeter. Long-lived particles occur in many extensions to the Standard Model and may elude searches for new promptly decaying particles. The analysis considers neutral, long-lived scalars with masses between 5 and 400 GeV, produced from decays of heavy bosons with masses between 125 and 1000 GeV, where the long-lived scalars decay into Standard Model fermions. The analysis uses either 10.8fb-1 or 33.0fb-1 of data (depending on the trigger) recorded in 2016 at the LHC with the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and limits are reported on the production cross section times branching ratio as a function of the proper decay length of the long-lived particles. © 2019, CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number481
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume79
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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Export Date: 1 July 2019

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  • Subatomic Physics

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