Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

UNSPECIFIED (2011) Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Physics Letters B, 698 (5). pp. 353-370. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

A search is made for massive highly ionising particles with lifetimes in excess of 100 ns, with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, using 3.1 pb(-1) of pp collision data taken at root s = 7 TeV. The signature of energy loss in the ATLAS inner detector and electromagnetic calorimeter is used. No such particles are found and limits on the production cross section for electric charges 6e <= vertical bar q vertical bar <= 17e and masses 200 GeV <= m <= 1000 GeV are set in the range 1-12 pb for different hypotheses on the production mechanism. (C) 2011 CERN.

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Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Physics Letters B

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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:

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Subjects:

?? high-energy collider experimentlong-lived particlehighly ionisingnew physicsnuclear and high energy physicsqc physics ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics

ID Code:

68067

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ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

14 Dec 2013 00:02

Refereed?:

Yes

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Published

Last Modified:

26 Oct 2024 00:09

URI:

https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/68067