Search for displaced vertices arising from decays of new heavy particles in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS

0389611 - FZÚ 2013 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abdallah, J. - Chudoba, Jiří - Gallus, Petr - Gunther, Jaroslav - Hruška, I. - Juránek, Vojtěch - Kepka, Oldřich - Kupčo, Alexander - Kůs, Vlastimil - Lipinský, L. - Lokajíček, Miloš - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Myška, Miroslav - Němeček, Stanislav - Panušková, M. - Růžička, Pavel - Schovancová, Jaroslava - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek - Tic, Tomáš - Valenta, J. - Vrba, Václav - Zeman, Martin … Total 3026 authors
Search for displaced vertices arising from decays of new heavy particles in 7 TeV pp collisions at ATLAS.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 707, č. 5 (2012), s. 478-496. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA08032
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : massive postulated particle * neutralino * ATLAS * CERN LHC Coll * squark pair production * squark: decay * p p interacion
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 4.569, year: 2012
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269311015255

We present the results of a search for new, heavy particles that decay at a significant distance from their production point into a final state containing charged hadrons in association with a high-momentum muon. The search is conducted in a pp-collision data sample with a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 33 pb^-1 collected in 2010 by the ATLAS detector operating at the Large Hadron Collider. Production of such particles is expected in various scenarios of physics beyond the standard model. We observe no signal and place limits on the production cross-section of supersymmetric particles in an R-parity-violating scenario as a function of the neutralino lifetime. Limits are presented for different squark and neutralino masses, enabling extension of the limits to a variety of other models.
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