PT Journal
AU ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, Gea
   Aparisi Pozo, JA
   Bailey, AJ
   Cabrera Urban, S
   Cardillo, F
   Castillo Gimenez, V
   Costa, MJ
   Didenko
   Escobar, C
   Estrada Pastor, O
   Fiorini, L
   Fullana Torregrosa, E
   Fuster, J
   Garcia, C
   Garcia Navarro, JE
   Gonzalez de la Hoz, S
   Gonzalvo Rodriguez, GR
   Guerrero Rojas, JGR
   Higon-Rodriguez, E
   Lacasta, C
   Lozano Bahilo, JJ
   Mamuzic, J
   Marti-Garcia, S
   Martinez Agullo, P
   Miralles Lopez, M
   Mitsou, VA
   Moreno Llacer, M
   Navarro-Gonzalez, J
   Poveda, J
   Prades Ibañez, A
   Ruiz-Martinez, A
   Sabatini, P
   Salt, J
   Sanchez Sebastian, V
   Sayago Galvan, I
   Soldevila, U
   Sanchez, J
   Torro Pastor, E
   Valero, A
   Valls Ferrer, JA
   Villaplana Perez, M
   Vos, M
TI Search for long-lived charginos based on a disappearing-track signature using 136 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
SO European Physical Journal C
JI Eur. Phys. J. C
PY 2022
BP 606 - 34pp
VL 82
IS 7
DI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10489-5
LA English
AB A search for long-lived charginos produced either directly or in the cascade decay of heavy prompt gluino states is presented. The search is based on proton- proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV between 2015 and 2018 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136 fb(-1). Long-lived charginos are characterised by a distinct signature of a short and then disappearing track, and are reconstructed using at least four measurements in the ATLAS pixel detector, with no subsequent measurements in the silicon-microstrip tracking volume nor any associated energy deposits in the calorimeter. The final state is complemented by a large missing transverse-momentum requirement for triggering purposes and at least one high-transversemomentum jet. No excess above the expected backgrounds is observed. Exclusion limits are set at 95% confidence level on the masses of the chargino and gluino for different chargino lifetimes. Chargino masses up to 660 (210) GeV are excluded in scenarios where the chargino is a pure wino (higgsino). For charginos produced during the cascade decay of a heavy gluino, gluinos with masses below 2.1 TeV are excluded for a chargino mass of 300 GeV and a lifetime of 0.2 ns.
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