Search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in <i>pp</i> collisions at √s=13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment and the full Run 2 dataset


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Aad G., Abbott B., Abbott D., Abed Abud A., Abeling K., Abhayasinghe D., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, cilt.2023, sa.6, 2023 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2023 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/jhep06(2023)158
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, INSPEC, zbMATH, Directory of Open Access Journals
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Beyond Standard Model, Exotics, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Supersymmetry
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents a search for hypothetical massive, charged, long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13 TeV. These particles are expected to move significantly slower than the speed of light and should be identifiable by their high transverse momenta and anomalously large specific ionisation losses, dE/dx. Trajectories reconstructed solely by the inner tracking system and a dE/dx measurement in the pixel detector layers provide sensitivity to particles with lifetimes down to O(1) ns with a mass, measured using the Bethe-Bloch relation, ranging from 100 GeV to 3 TeV. Interpretations for pair-production of R-hadrons, charginos and staus in scenarios of supersymmetry compatible with these particles being long-lived are presented, with mass limits extending considerably beyond those from previous searches in broad ranges of lifetime.