%0 Journal Article
%T Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Fernandez Martinez, P.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Kaci, M.
%A King, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J European Physical Journal C
%D 2015
%V 75
%N 9
%I Springer
%@ 1434-6044
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2015
%O WOS:000363330800007
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2426), last updated on Fri, 13 Nov 2015 13:05:17 +0000
%X Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged heavy long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons or charginos. These particles, if produced at the Large Hadron Collider, should bemoving non-relativistically and are therefore identifiable through the measurement of an anomalously large specific energy loss in the ATLAS pixel detector. Measuring heavy long-lived particles through their track parameters in the vicinity of the interaction vertex provides sensitivity to metastable particles with lifetimes from 0.6 ns to 30 ns. A search for such particles with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.4 fb(-1) of pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background expectation is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadrons and chargino production are set. Gluino R-hadrons with 10 ns lifetime and masses up to 1185 GeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level, and so are charginos with 15 ns lifetime and masses up to 482 GeV.
%R 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05332
%U https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0
%P 407 - 25pp