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Abstract: A search is presented for the decays of heavy exotic long-lived particles (LLPs) that are produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC and come to rest in the CMS detector. Their decays would be visible during periods of time well separated from proton-proton collisions. Two decay scenarios of stopped LLPs are explored: a hadronic decay detected in the calorimeter and a decay into muons detected in the muon system. The calorimeter (muon) search covers a period of sensitivity totaling 721 (744) hours in 38.6 (39.0) fb?1 of data collected by the CMS detector in 2015 and 2016. The results are interpreted in several scenarios that predict LLPs. Production cross section limits are set as a function of the mean proper lifetime and the mass of the LLPs, for lifetimes between 100 ns and 10 days. These are the most stringent limits to date on the mass of hadronically decaying stopped LLPs, and this is the first search at the LHC for stopped LLPs that decay to muons.
Fuente: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, Num. 05, Art. Num. 127
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Publication date: 21/05/2018
No. of pages: 47
Publication type: Article
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2018)127
ISSN: 1126-6708,1029-8479
Publication Url: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)127
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SIRUNYAN, A. M.
JOSE IBAN CABRILLO BARTOLOME
ALICIA CALDERON TAZON
BARBARA CHAZIN QUERO
JORGE DUARTE CAMPDERROS
MARCOS FERNANDEZ GARCIA
PEDRO JOSE FERNANDEZ MANTECA
JUAN GARCIA FERRERO
ANDREA GARCIA ALONSO
GERVASIO GOMEZ GRAMUGLIO
MARIA AMPARO LOPEZ VIRTO
JESUS MARCO DE LUCAS
CELSO MARTINEZ RIVERO
PABLO MARTINEZ RUIZ DEL ARBOL
FRANCISCO MATORRAS WEINIG
JONATAN PIEDRA GOMEZ
CEDRIC GERALD PRIEELS
MARIA TERESA RODRIGO ANORO
ALBERTO RUIZ JIMENO
LUCA SCODELLARO
NICOLO TREVISANI
IVAN VILA ALVAREZ
ROCIO VILAR CORTABITARTE
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