A search for the decays of stopped long-lived particles at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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2021

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Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, D.C.
Abed Abud, A.
Abeling, K.
Abhayasinghe, D.K.
Abidi, S.H.
AbouZeid, O.S.
Abraham, N.L.
Abramowicz, H.

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Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), 2021; 173(7):173-1-173-49

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G. Aad, B. Abbott, D.C. Abbott ... Paul Jackson … Harish Potti … Martin White … et al.

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A search for long-lived particles, which have come to rest within the ATLAS detector, is presented. The subsequent decays of these particles can produce high-momentum jets, resulting in large out-of-time energy deposits in the ATLAS calorimeters. These de- cays are detected using data collected during periods in the LHC bunch structure when collisions are absent. The analysed dataset is composed of events from proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider at a centre-of-mass energy of s√ = 13 TeV and recorded by the ATLAS experiment during 2017 and 2018. The dataset used for this search corresponds to a total live time of 579 hours. The results of this search are used to derive lower limits on the mass of gluino R-hadrons, assuming a branching fraction B(g∼→qq¯¯χ01) = 100%, with masses of up to 1.4 TeV excluded for gluino lifetimes of 10−5 to 103 s.

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