Title
Search for stopped long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV
Date Issued
01 January 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Chatrchyan S.
Khachatryan V.
Sirunyan A.M.
Tumasyan A.
Adam W.
Bergauer T.
Dragicevic M.
Erö J.
Fabjan C.
Fried M.
Frühwirth R.
Ghete V.M.
Hammer J.
Hörmann N.
Hrubec J.
Jeitler M.
Kiesenhofer W.
Knünz V.
Krammer M.
Liko D.
Mikulec I.
Pernicka M.
Rahbaran B.
Rohringer C.
Rohringer H.
Schöfbeck R.
Strauss J.
Taurok A.
Wagner P.
Waltenberger W.
Walzel G.
Widl E.
Wulz C.E.
Mossolov V.
Shumeiko N.
Suarez Gonzalez J.
Bansal S.
Cornelis T.
De Wolf E.A.
Janssen X.
Luyckx S.
Maes T.
Mucibello L.
Ochesanu S.
Roland B.
Rougny R.
Selvaggi M.
Staykova Z.
Van Haevermaet H.
Van Mechelen P.
Van Remortel N.
Van Spilbeeck A.
Blekman F.
Blyweert S.
D'Hondt J.
Gonzalez Suarez R.
Kalogeropoulos A.
Maes M.
Olbrechts A.
Van Doninck W.
Van Mulders P.
Van Onsem G.P.
Villella I.
Clerbaux B.
De Lentdecker G.
Dero V.
Gay A.P.R.
Hreus T.
Léonard A.
Marage P.E.
Reis T.
Thomas L.
Vander Velde C.
Vanlaer P.
Wang J.
Adler V.
Beernaert K.
Cimmino A.
Costantini S.
Garcia G.
Grunewald M.
Klein B.
Lellouch J.
Marinov A.
McCartin J.
Ocampo Rios A.a.
Ryckbosch D.
Strobbe N.
Thyssen F.
Tytgat M.
Verwilligen P.
Walsh S.
Yazgan E.
Zaganidis N.
Basegmez S.
Bruno G.
Castello R.
Caudron A.
Ceard L.
Delaere C.
Publisher(s)
Springer Verlag
Abstract
A search has been performed for long-lived particles that have stopped in the CMS detector, during 7TeV proton-proton operations of the CERN LHC. The existence of such particles could be inferred from observation of their decays when there were no protonproton collisions in the CMS detector, namely during gaps between LHC beam crossings. Using a data set in which CMS recorded an integrated luminosity of 4.0 fb-1, and a search interval corresponding to 246 hours of trigger live time, 12 events are observed, with a mean background prediction of 8:6 ± 2:4 events. Limits are presented at 95% confidence level on long-lived gluino and stop production, over 13 orders of magnitude of particle lifetime. Assuming the "cloud model" of R-hadron interactions, a gluino with mass below 640 GeV and a stop with mass below 340 GeV are excluded, for lifetimes between 10 μs and 1000 s.
Volume
2012
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química analítica
Química física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84865759750
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
11266708
Sponsor(s)
ST/H00081X/2
National Science Foundation 1211067 NSF
Science and Technology Facilities Council CMS, PP/D004284/1, ST/F006748/1, ST/F007094/1, ST/F007434/1, ST/G502347/1, ST/H000925/1, ST/I000410/1, ST/I002200/1, ST/I005912/1, ST/I505572/1, ST/I505580/1, ST/J004901/1, ST/J005665/1, ST/K001604/1 STFC
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 123501, 134939, 138111 SNF
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