Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at View the sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

UNSPECIFIED (2013) Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at View the sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 722 (4-5). pp. 305-323. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search for highly ionising, penetrating particles with electric charges from |q| = 2e to 6e is performed using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Proton-proton collision data taken at sqrt(s)=7 TeV during the 2011 running period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb^-1, are analysed. No signal candidates are observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as mass-exclusion lower limits for a simplified Drell--Yan production model. In this model, masses are excluded from 50 GeV up to 430, 480, 490, 470 and 420 GeV for charges 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e and 6e, respectively.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Physics Letters B

Additional Information:

This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3106

Subjects:

?? high-energy collider experimentlong-lived particlehighly ionisingnew physicsmultiple electric chargesnuclear and high energy physics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

64424

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

10 May 2013 09:30

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published

Last Modified:

19 Sep 2025 06:40

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/64424

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