Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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作者
Aad, G. [120 ,121 ]
Abbott, B. [153 ]
Abdallah, J. [213 ]
Abdinov, O. [14 ]
Aben, R. [146 ,147 ]
Abolins, M. [126 ]
AbouZeid, O. S. [221 ]
Abramowicz, H. [215 ]
Abreu, H. [214 ]
Abreu, R. [43 ]
Abulaiti, Y. [206 ,207 ]
Acharya, B. S. [228 ,229 ,249 ]
Adamczyk, L. [60 ]
Adams, D. L. [37 ]
Adelman, J. [148 ]
Adomeit, S. [137 ]
Adye, T. [180 ]
Affolder, A. A. [106 ]
Agatonovic-Jovin, T. [17 ]
Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. [169 ,174 ,175 ]
Ahlen, S. P. [31 ]
Ahmadov, F. [14 ,95 ]
Aielli, G. [183 ,184 ]
Akerstedt, H. [206 ,207 ]
Akesson, T. P. A. [116 ]
Akimoto, G. [217 ,218 ]
Akimov, A. V. [133 ]
Alberghi, G. L. [28 ,29 ]
Albert, J. [239 ]
Albrand, S. [81 ]
Alconada Verzini, M. J. [101 ,102 ]
Aleksa, M. [43 ]
Aleksandrov, I. N. [95 ]
Alexa, C. [38 ]
Alexander, G. [13 ,215 ]
Alexopoulos, T.
Alhroob, M. [153 ]
Alimonti, G. [127 ]
Alio, L. [120 ,121 ]
Alison, J. [44 ]
Alkire, S. P. [56 ]
Allbrooke, B. M. M. [24 ]
Allport, P. P. [106 ]
Aloisio, A. [142 ,143 ,184 ]
Alonso, A. [57 ]
Alonso, F. [101 ,102 ]
Alpigiani, C. [109 ]
Altheimer, A. [56 ]
Gonzalez, B. Alvarez [43 ,234 ]
Alvarez Piqueras, D. [233 ,235 ,236 ,237 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adelaide, Dept Phys, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] SUNY Albany, Dept Phys, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[3] Univ Alberta, Dept Phys, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[4] Ankara Univ, Dept Phys, TR-06100 Ankara, Turkey
[5] Istanbul Aydin Univ, Istanbul, Turkey
[6] TOBB Univ Econ & Technol, Div Phys, Ankara, Turkey
[7] CNRS, IN2P3, LAPP, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Argonne Natl Lab, Div High Energy Phys, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[10] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[11] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Phys, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[12] Univ Athens, Dept Phys, Athens, Greece
[13] Natl Tech Univ Athens, Dept Phys, GR-15773 Zografos, Greece
[14] Azerbaijan Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Baku 370143, Azerbaijan
[15] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[16] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Fis, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[17] Univ Belgrade, Inst Phys, Belgrade, Serbia
[18] Univ Bergen, Dept Phys & Technol, Bergen, Norway
[19] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[20] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[21] Humboldt Univ, Dept Phys, Berlin, Germany
[22] Univ Bern, Albert Einstein Ctr Fundamental Phys, Bern, Switzerland
[23] Univ Bern, High Energy Phys Lab, Bern, Switzerland
[24] Univ Birmingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
[25] Bogazici Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkey
[26] Dogus Univ, Dept Phys, Istanbul, Turkey
[27] Gaziantep Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Gaziantep, Turkey
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[29] Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Bologna, Italy
[30] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, Bonn, Germany
[31] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[32] Brandeis Univ, Dept Phys, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[33] Univ Fed Rio de Janeiro, COPPE EE IF, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[34] Fed Univ Juiz de Fora UFJF, Elect Circuits Dept, Juiz De Fora, Brazil
[35] Fed Univ Sao Joao del Rei UFSJ, Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil
[36] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis, BR-01498 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[37] Brookhaven Natl Lab, Dept Phys, Upton, NY 11973 USA
[38] Natl Inst Phys & Nucl Engn, Bucharest, Romania
[39] Natl Inst Res & Dev Isotop & Mol Technol, Dept Phys, Cluj Napoca, Romania
[40] Univ Buenos Aires, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[41] Univ Cambridge, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge CB3 0HE, England
[42] Carleton Univ, Dept Phys, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
[43] CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
[44] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[45] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Dept Fis, Santiago, Chile
[46] Univ Tecn Federico Santa Maria, Dept Fis, Valparaiso, Chile
[47] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[48] Univ Sci & Technol China, Dept Modern Phys, Hefei, Anhui, Peoples R China
[49] Nanjing Univ, Dept Phys, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[50] Shandong Univ, Sch Phys, Jinan, Shandong, Peoples R China
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010
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摘要
A search for the decay of neutral, weakly interacting, long-lived particles using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses the full data set recorded in 2012: 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collision data at root s = 8 TeV. The search employs techniques for reconstructing decay vertices of long-lived particles decaying to jets in the inner tracking detector and muon spectrometer. Signal events require at least two reconstructed vertices. No significant excess of events over the expected background is found, and limits as a function of proper lifetime are reported for the decay of the Higgs boson and other scalar bosons to long-lived particles and for Hidden Valley Z' and Stealth SUSY benchmark models. The first search results for displaced decays in Z' and Stealth SUSY models are presented. The upper bounds of the excluded proper lifetimes are the most stringent to date.
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