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.

Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abdinov, O., Abhayasinghe, D.K., et al. (2019). Search for long-lived neutral particles in pp collisions at √s=13TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS calorimeter. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 79(6) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6962-6].

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

Di Micco B.;Di Nardo R.;Orestano D.;Petrucci F.;Rossi E.;Salamanna G.;Vecchio V.;Verducci M.;
2019-01-01

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
Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abdinov, O., Abhayasinghe, D.K., et al. (2019). Search for long-lived neutral particles in pp collisions at √s=13TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS calorimeter. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 79(6) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6962-6].
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