Search for Charged Massive Long-Lived Particles

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W. and Yu, J. and Zhao, T. and Zhou, B. and Zhu, J. and Zielinski, M. and Zieminska, D. and Zivkovic, L. and Collaboration, D0 (2012) Search for Charged Massive Long-Lived Particles. Physical review letters, 108 (12): 121802. ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

We report on a search for charged massive long-lived particles (CMLLPs), based on 5.2 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p (p) over bar collider. We search for events in which one or more particles are reconstructed as muons but have speed and ionization energy loss (dE/dx) inconsistent with muons produced in beam collisions. CMLLPs are predicted in several theories of physics beyond the standard model. We exclude pair-produced long-lived gauginolike charginos below 267 GeV and Higgsino-like charginos below 217 GeV at 95% C.L., as well as long-lived scalar top quarks with mass below 285 GeV.

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© 2012 American Physical Society submitted to Phys. Rev. Letters
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26 Apr 2012 16:07
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