This paper presents a search for hypothetical massive, charged, long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV. These particles are expected to move significantly slower than the speed of light and should be identifiable by their high transverse momenta and anomalously large specific ionisation losses, dE/dx. Trajectories reconstructed solely by the inner tracking system and a dE/dx measurement in the pixel detector layers provide sensitivity to particles with lifetimes down to O(1) ns with a mass, measured using the Bethe-Bloch relation, ranging from 100 GeV to 3 TeV. Interpretations for pair-production of R-hadrons, charginos and staus in scenarios of supersymmetry compatible with these particles being long-lived are presented, with mass limits extending considerably beyond those from previous searches in broad ranges of lifetime.

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.K., et al. (2023). Search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment and the full Run 2 dataset. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2023(6) [10.1007/jhep06(2023)158].

Search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment and the full Run 2 dataset

I. Bashta;M. T. Camerlingo;V. D'Amico;B. Di Micco;R. Di Nardo;D. Orestano;G. Salamanna;M. Sessa;
2023-01-01

Abstract

This paper presents a search for hypothetical massive, charged, long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV. These particles are expected to move significantly slower than the speed of light and should be identifiable by their high transverse momenta and anomalously large specific ionisation losses, dE/dx. Trajectories reconstructed solely by the inner tracking system and a dE/dx measurement in the pixel detector layers provide sensitivity to particles with lifetimes down to O(1) ns with a mass, measured using the Bethe-Bloch relation, ranging from 100 GeV to 3 TeV. Interpretations for pair-production of R-hadrons, charginos and staus in scenarios of supersymmetry compatible with these particles being long-lived are presented, with mass limits extending considerably beyond those from previous searches in broad ranges of lifetime.
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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, D.C., Abed Abud, A., Abeling, K., Abhayasinghe, D.K., et al. (2023). Search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment and the full Run 2 dataset. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2023(6) [10.1007/jhep06(2023)158].
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