Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=8TeV
2015
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Khachatryan, V.Adžić, Petar
Ekmedžić, Marko
Milošević, Jovan
Reković, Vladimir
Đorđević, Miloš
Milenović, Predrag
CMS Collaboration (ukupan broj autora: 2128)
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A search has been performed for long-lived particles that could have come to rest within the CMS detector, using the time intervals between LHC beam crossings. The existence of such particles could be deduced from observation of their decays via energy deposits in the CMS calorimeter appearing at times that are well separated from any proton-proton collisions. Using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.6 fb(-1) of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions, and a search interval corresponding to 281 h of trigger livetime, 10 events are observed, with a background prediction of 13.2(-2.5)(+3.6) events. Limits are presented at 95 % confidence level on gluino and top squark production, for over 13 orders of magnitude in the mean proper lifetime of the stopped particle. Assuming a cloud model of R-hadron interactions, a gluino with mass less than or similar to 1000 GeV and a top squark with mass less than or similar to 525 GeV are excluded, for lifetimes between 1 mu s and 1000 s.... These results are the most stringent constraints on stopped particles to date.
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European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, 2015, 75, 4Funding / projects:
- BMWFW (Austria), FWF (Austria), FNRS (Belgium), FWO (Belgium), CNPq (Brazil), CAPES (Brazil), FAPERJ (Brazil), FAPESP (Brazil), MES (Bulgaria), CERN (China), CAS (China), MoST (China), NSFC (China), COLCIENCIAS (Colombia), MSES (Croatia), CSF (Croatia), RPF (Cyprus), MoER (Estonia), ERC IUT (Estonia), ERDF (Estonia), Academy of Finland, MEC (Finland), HIP (Finland), CEA (France), CNRS/IN2P3 (France), BMBF, Germany, DFG (Germany), HGF (Germany), GSRT (Greece), OTKA (Hungary), NIH (Hungary), DAE (India), DST (India), IPM (Iran), SFI (Ireland), INFN (Italy), MSIP (Republic of Korea), NRF (Republic of Korea), LAS (Lithuania), MOE (Malaysia), UM (Malaysia), CINVESTAV (Mexico), CONACYT (Mexico), SEP (Mexico), UASLP-FAI (Mexico), MBIE (NewZealand), PAEC (Pakistan), MSHE (Poland), NSC (Poland), FCT (Portugal), JINR (Dubna), MON (Russia), RosAtom (Russia), RAS (Russia), RFBR (Russia), MESTD (Serbia), SEIDI (Spain), CPAN (Spain), Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland), MST (Taipei), ThEPCenter (Thailand), IPST (Thailand), STAR (Thailand), NSTDA (Thailand), TUBITAK (Turkey), TAEK (Turkey), NASU (Ukraine), SFFR (Ukraine), STFC (United Kingdom), DOE (USA), NSF (USA), Marie-Curie program, European Research Council, EPLANET (European Union), Leventis Foundation, A.P. Sloan Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Fonds pour la Formation a la Recherche dans lIndustrie et dans lAgriculture (FRIA-Belgium), Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium), Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic, Council of Science and Industrial Research, India, HOMING PLUS program of Foundation for Polish Science, European Union, Regional Development Fund, Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino), Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste), MIUR (Italy) [20108T4XTM], Thalis and Aristeia programs - EU-ESF, Greek NSRF, National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3367-z
ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
WoS: 000355670100001
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VinčaTY - JOUR AU - Khachatryan, V. AU - Adžić, Petar AU - Ekmedžić, Marko AU - Milošević, Jovan AU - Reković, Vladimir AU - Đorđević, Miloš AU - Milenović, Predrag PY - 2015 UR - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/585 AB - A search has been performed for long-lived particles that could have come to rest within the CMS detector, using the time intervals between LHC beam crossings. The existence of such particles could be deduced from observation of their decays via energy deposits in the CMS calorimeter appearing at times that are well separated from any proton-proton collisions. Using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.6 fb(-1) of 8 TeV proton-proton collisions, and a search interval corresponding to 281 h of trigger livetime, 10 events are observed, with a background prediction of 13.2(-2.5)(+3.6) events. Limits are presented at 95 % confidence level on gluino and top squark production, for over 13 orders of magnitude in the mean proper lifetime of the stopped particle. Assuming a cloud model of R-hadron interactions, a gluino with mass less than or similar to 1000 GeV and a top squark with mass less than or similar to 525 GeV are excluded, for lifetimes between 1 mu s and 1000 s. These results are the most stringent constraints on stopped particles to date. T2 - European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields T1 - Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=8TeV VL - 75 IS - 4 DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3367-z ER -
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Khachatryan, V., Adžić, P., Ekmedžić, M., Milošević, J., Reković, V., Đorđević, M.,& Milenović, P.. (2015). Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=8TeV. in European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, 75(4). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3367-z
Khachatryan V, Adžić P, Ekmedžić M, Milošević J, Reković V, Đorđević M, Milenović P. Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=8TeV. in European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields. 2015;75(4). doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3367-z .
Khachatryan, V., Adžić, Petar, Ekmedžić, Marko, Milošević, Jovan, Reković, Vladimir, Đorđević, Miloš, Milenović, Predrag, "Search for decays of stopped long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at root s=8TeV" in European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields, 75, no. 4 (2015), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3367-z . .