Search for long-lived neutral particles produced in <i>pp</i> collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV decaying into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS inner detector and muon spectrometer



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abud, A Abed, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2922 more authors) (2020) Search for long-lived neutral particles produced in <i>pp</i> collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV decaying into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS inner detector and muon spectrometer. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 101 (5). 052013-.

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Abstract

A search is presented for pair-production of long-lived neutral particles using 33 fb$^{-1}$ of $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV proton-proton collision data, collected during 2016 by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. This search focuses on a topology in which one long-lived particle decays in the ATLAS inner detector and the other decays in the muon spectrometer. Special techniques are employed to reconstruct the displaced tracks and vertices in the inner detector and in the muon spectrometer. One event is observed that passes the full event selection, which is consistent with the estimated background. Limits are placed on scalar boson propagators with masses from 125 GeV to 1000 GeV decaying into pairs of long-lived hidden-sector scalars with masses from 8 GeV to 400 GeV. The limits placed on several low-mass scalars extend previous exclusion limits in the range of proper lifetimes $c \tau$ from 5 cm to 1 m.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 43 pages in total, author list starting page 27, 6 figures, 9 tables. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2018-61
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 24 Apr 2020 13:22
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2023 15:18
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.052013
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/Phys...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3083983