%0 Journal Article
%T Search for long-lived heavy charged particles using a ring imaging Cherenkov technique at LHCb
%A LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al
%A Martinez-Vidal, F.
%A Oyanguren, A.
%A Ruiz Valls, P.
%A Sanchez Mayordomo, C.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2015
%V 75
%N 12
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F LHCbCollaborationAaij_etal2015
%O WOS:000366629800001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2504), last updated on Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:54:21 +0000
%X A search is performed for heavy long-lived charged particles using 3.0 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions collected at root s = 7 and 8 TeV with the LHCb detector. The search is mainly based on the response of the ring imaging Cherenkov detectors to distinguish the heavy, slow-moving particles from muons. No evidence is found for the production of such long-lived states. The results are expressed as limits on the Drell-Yan production of pairs of long-lived particles, with both particles in the LHCb pseudorapidity acceptance, 1.8 < eta < 4.9. The mass-dependent cross-section upper limits are in the range 2-4 fb (at 95 % CL) for masses between 14 and 309 GeV/c(2).
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3809-7
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.09173
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3809-7
%P 595 - 14pp