A search for the decays of stopped long-lived particles at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector



Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abbott, DC, Abed Abud, A ORCID: 0000-0002-2788-3822, Abeling, K, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2855 more authors) (2021) A search for the decays of stopped long-lived particles at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 07 (7). 173-.

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Abstract

A search for long-lived particles, which have come to rest within the ATLAS detector, is presented. The subsequent decays of these long-lived particles can produce high-momentum jets, resulting in large out-of-time energy deposits in the ATLAS calorimeters. These decays are detected using data collected during periods in the LHC bunch structure when collisions are absent. The analysed dataset is composed of events from proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and recorded by the ATLAS experiment during 2017 and 2018. The dataset used for this search corresponds to a total live time of 579 hours. The results of this search are used to derive lower limits on the mass of gluino $R$-hadrons, assuming a branching fraction $B(\tilde{g} \rightarrow q \bar{q} \tilde{\chi}_1^0)=100$%, with masses of up to 1.4 TeV excluded for gluino lifetimes of $10^{-5}$ to $10^3$ s.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 48 pages in total, author list starting page 32, 10 figures, 8 tables, published in JHEP. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2018-15
Uncontrolled Keywords: Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 06 Sep 2021 10:05
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2023 09:07
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)173
Open Access URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP07...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3136076