@Article{ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2019, author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al and Alvarez Piqueras, D. and Aparisi Pozo, J. A. and Bailey, A. J. and Barranco Navarro, L. and Cabrera Urban, S. and Castillo, F. L. and Castillo Gimenez, V. and Cerda Alberich, L. and Costa, M. J. and Escobar, C. and Estrada Pastor, O. and Ferrer, A. and Fiorini, L. and Fullana Torregrosa, E. and Fuster, J. and Garcia, C. and Garcia Navarro, J. E. and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. and Higon-Rodriguez, E. and Jimenez Pena, J. and Lacasta, C. and Lozano Bahilo, J. J. and Madaffari, D. and Mamuzic, J. and Marti-Garcia, S. and Melini, D. and Mi{\~A}{\textpm}ano, M. and Mitsou, V. A. and Rodriguez Bosca, S. and Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. and Ruiz-Martinez, A. and Salt, J. and Santra, A. and Soldevila, U. and Sanchez, J. and Valero, A. and Valls Ferrer, J. A. and Vos, M.", title="Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in proton-proton collisions at root s=13 TeV using an ionisation measurement with the ATLAS detector", journal="Physics Letters B", year="2019", publisher="Elsevier Science Bv", volume="788", pages="96--116", abstract="This Letter presents a search for heavy charged long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s= 13 TeV at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb(-1) collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2015 and 2016. These particles are expected to travel with a velocity significantly below the speed of light, and therefore have a specific ionisation higher than any high-momentum Standard Model particle of unit charge. The pixel subsystem of the ATLAS detector is used in this search to measure the ionisation energy loss of all reconstructed charged particles which traverse the pixel detector. Results are interpreted assuming the pair production of R-hadrons as composite colourless states of a long-lived gluino and Standard Model partons. No significant deviation from Standard Model background expectations is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadron production cross-sections and gluino masses are set, assuming the gluino always decays to two quarks and a 100 GeV stable neutralino. R-hadrons with lifetimes above 1.0 ns are excluded at the 95{\%} confidence level, with lower limits on the gluino mass ranging between 1290 GeV and 2060 GeV. In the case of stable R-hadrons, the lower limit on the gluino mass at the 95{\%} confidence level is 1890 GeV.", optnote="WOS:000455364400012", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3877), last updated on Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:54:36 +0000", issn="0370-2693", doi="10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.055", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04095", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.055", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1808.04095", language="English" }