PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Ruiz Valls, P
   Sanchez Mayordomo, C
TI Search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2015
BP 152 - 12pp
VL 75
IS 4
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3344-6
LA English
AB A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50 GeV/c(2) and a lifetime between 1 and 200 ps in a sample of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.62 fb(-1), collected by the LHCb detector. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced by the decay of a standard model-like Higgs boson. The experimental signature of the long-lived particle is a displaced vertex with two associated jets. No excess above the background is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the long-lived particle mass and lifetime.
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