TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al AU - Alvarez Piqueras, D. AU - Aparisi Pozo, J. A. AU - Bailey, A. J. AU - Barranco Navarro, L. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo, F. L. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Cerda Alberich, L. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Escobar, C. AU - Estrada Pastor, O. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fullana Torregrosa, E. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Jimenez Pena, J. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lozano Bahilo, J. J. AU - Madaffari, D. AU - Mamuzic, J. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Melini, D. AU - Miñano, M. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Rodriguez Bosca, S. AU - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D. AU - Ruiz-Martinez, A. AU - Salt, J. AU - Santra, A. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2019 DA - 2019// TI - Search for the Production of a Long-Lived Neutral Particle Decaying within the ATLAS Hadronic Calorimeter in Association with a Z Boson from pp Collisions at root s=13 TeV T2 - Phys. Rev. Lett. JO - Physical Review Letters SP - 151801 EP - 19pp VL - 122 IS - 15 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - This Letter presents a search for the production of a long-lived neutral particle (Z(d)) decaying within the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, in association with a standard model (SM) Z boson produced via an intermediate scalar boson, where Z -> l(+) l(-) (l = e, mu). The data used were collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 pp collisions with a center-of-mass energy of root s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 +/- 0.8 fb(-1). No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. Limits on the production cross section of the scalar boson times its decay branching fraction into the long-lived neutral particle are derived as a function of the mass of the intermediate scalar boson, the mass of the long-lived neutral particle, and its c tau from a few centimeters to one hundred meters. In the case that the intermediate scalar boson is the SM Higgs boson, its decay branching fraction to a long-lived neutral particle with a c tau approximately between 0.1 and 7 m is excluded with a 95% confidence level up to 10% for m(zd) between 5 and 15 GeV. SN - 0031-9007 UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02542 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801 LA - English N1 - WOS:000464756200003 ID - ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2019 ER -