@Article{ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2016,
author="ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
and Alvarez Piqueras, D.
and Barranco Navarro, L.
and Cabrera Urban, S.
and Castillo Gimenez, V.
and Cerda Alberich, L.
and Costa, M. J.
and Fernandez Martinez, P.
and Ferrer, A.
and Fiorini, L.
and Fuster, J.
and Garcia, C.
and Garcia Navarro, J. E.
and Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
and Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
and Higon-Rodriguez, E.
and Jimenez Pena, J.
and King, M.
and Lacasta, C.
and Lacuesta, V. R.
and Mamuzic, J.
and Marti-Garcia, S.
and Melini, D.
and Mitsou, V. A.
and Pedraza Lopez, S.
and Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
and Romero Adam, E.
and Ros, E.
and Salt, J.
and Sanchez Martinez, V.
and Soldevila, U.
and Sanchez, J.
and Valero, A.
and Valls Ferrer, J. A.
and Vos, M.",
title="Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionization energy loss in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment",
journal="Physical Review D",
year="2016",
publisher="Amer Physical Soc",
volume="93",
number="11",
pages="112015--25pp",
abstract="This paper presents a search for massive charged long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at root s = 13 TeV at the LHC using the ATLAS experiment. The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb(-1). Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of massive charged long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons. These massive particles are expected to be produced with a velocity significantly below the speed of light, and therefore to have a specific ionization higher than any Standard Model particle of unit charge at high momenta. The Pixel subsystem of the ATLAS detector is used to measure the ionization energy loss of reconstructed charged particles and to search for such highly ionizing particles. The search presented here has much greater sensitivity than a similar search performed using the ATLAS detector in the root s = 8 TeV data set, thanks to the increase in expected signal cross section due to the higher center-of-mass energy of collisions, to an upgraded detector with a new silicon layer close to the interaction point, and to analysis improvements. No significant deviation from Standard Model background expectations is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadron production cross sections and masses are set. Gluino R-hadrons with lifetimes above 0.4 ns and decaying to q (q) over bar plus a 100 GeV neutralino are excluded at the 95{\%} confidence level, with lower mass limit ranging between 740 and 1590 GeV. In the case of stable R-hadrons the lower mass limit at the 95{\%} confidence level is 1570 GeV.",
optnote="WOS:000378819900002",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2743), last updated on Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:06:05 +0000",
issn="2470-0010",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015",
opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04520",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.112015",
archivePrefix="arXiv",
eprint="1604.04520",
language="English"
}