Search for long-lived neutral particles in pp collisions at √s = 13TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS calorimeter

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Abstract

This paper describes a search for pairs of neutral, long-lived particles decaying in the ATLAS calorimeter. Long-lived particles occur in many extensions to the Standard Model and may elude searches for new promptly decaying particles. The analysis considers neutral, long-lived scalars with masses between 5 and 400 GeV, produced from decays of heavy bosons with masses between 125 and 1000 GeV, where the long-lived scalars decay into Standard Model fermions. The analysis uses either 10.8 fb-1 or 33.0 fb-1 of data (depending on the trigger) recorded in 2016 at the LHC with the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. No significant excess is observed, and limits are reported on the production cross section times branching ratio as a function of the proper decay length of the long-lived particles.

Original languageEnglish
Article number481
Pages (from-to)1-31
Number of pages31
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume79
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes

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