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

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 s=7 TeV. The signature of energy loss in the ATLAS inner detector and electromagnetic calorimeter is used. N...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Physics letters. B 2011, Vol.698 (5), p.353-370
Hauptverfasser:	Abreu, H., Ahlen, S.P., Akimov, A.V., Anders, C.F., Bain, T., Bindi, M., Boisvert, V., Bozovic-Jelisavcic, I., Brooks, W.K., Bruneliere, R., Bruni, G., Burke, S., Cameron, D., Catmore, J.R., Cazzato, A., Chen, H., Chen, X., Cherkaoui El Moursli, R., Cheung, S.L., Ciocio, A., Collins-Tooth, C., Collot, J., Coniavitis, E., Cooper-Sarkar, A.M., Crosetti, G., De Groot, N., Demirkoz, B., Dionisi, C., Djobava, T., Dolezal, Z., Drasal, Z., Engl, A., Etienne, F., Ferrara, V., Fleischmann, S., Föhlisch, F., Gazis, E.N., Grancagnolo, S., Gris, P.L.Y., Guillemin, T., Guo, J., Hartjes, F., Hodgson, P., Ibbotson, M., Imhaeuser, M., Jankowski, E., Jimenez Belenguer, M., Jon-And, K., Kataoka, M., Khramov, E., Klein, U., Koffeman, E., Kolesnikov, V., Korcyl, K., Korn, A., Krasny, M.W., Kuze, M., Laycock, P., Lenz, T., Liu, D., Love, J., Ma, L.L., Maeno, T., Mallik, U., Marshall, R., Moles-Valls, R., Muenstermann, D., Nicolaidou, R., Otero y Garzon, G., Øye, O.K., Papadelis, A., Parodi, F., Pedraza Morales, M.I., Pizio, C., Rodier, S., Rust, D.R., Salvachua Ferrando, B.M., Sarangi, T., Sauvage, G., Schroer, N., Schumm, B.A., Shochet, M.J., Shupe, M.A., Silbert, O., Sisakyan, A.N., Skinnari, L.A., Soffer, A., Starovoitov, P., Stugu, B., Tartarelli, G.F., Tuts, P.M., van Eldik, N., Viel, S., Vives Vaque, F., Volpi, M., Wessels, M., Wingerter-Seez, I., Yamazaki, T., Yao, W.-M., Zendler, C.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Ciências Físicas Ciências Naturais Cross sections Detectors Elementary particles Energy (nuclear) Energy use Exact sciences and technology Fysik Hadrons High Energy Physics - Experiment High-energy collider experiment Highly ionising Long-lived particle NATURAL SCIENCES NATURVETENSKAP New physics Nuclear physics Physics Science & Technology Searching The physics of elementary particles and fields
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Zusammenfassung:	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 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⩽\|q\|⩽17e and masses 200 GeV⩽m⩽1000 GeV are set in the range 1–12 pb for different hypotheses on the production mechanism.
ISSN:	0370-2693 1873-2445 1873-2445
DOI:	10.1016/j.physletb.2011.03.033