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Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

dc.contributor.authorATLAS collaboration (2825 authors)
dc.contributor.authorAguilar-Saavedra, Juan Antonio
dc.contributor.authorAmor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia
dc.contributor.authorAnjos, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorAraque, Juan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorCantrill, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, João
dc.contributor.authorCastro, Nuno Filipe
dc.contributor.authorConde Muiño, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose
dc.contributor.authorFiolhais, Miguel
dc.contributor.authorGalhardo, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Agostinho
dc.contributor.authorGonçalo, Ricardo
dc.contributor.authorJorge, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Lourenco
dc.contributor.authorMachado Miguens, Joana
dc.contributor.authorMaio, Amélia
dc.contributor.authorManeira, José
dc.contributor.authorOnofre, António
dc.contributor.authorPalma, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorPedro, Rute
dc.contributor.authorPina, João Antonio
dc.contributor.authorPinto, Belmiro
dc.contributor.authorSantos, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSaraiva, João
dc.contributor.authorSilva, José
dc.contributor.authorTavares Delgado, Ademar
dc.contributor.authorVeloso, Filipe
dc.contributor.authorWolters, Helmut
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-04T06:37:43Z
dc.date.available2019-02-04T06:37:43Z
dc.date.issued2015-07-17
dc.date.updated2019-02-04T06:37:43Z
dc.description.abstractA search for the decay of neutral, weakly interacting, long-lived particles using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. This analysis uses the full data set recorded in 2012: 20.3  fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at s=8  TeV. The search employs techniques for reconstructing decay vertices of long-lived particles decaying to jets in the inner tracking detector and muon spectrometer. Signal events require at least two reconstructed vertices. No significant excess of events over the expected background is found, and limits as a function of proper lifetime are reported for the decay of the Higgs boson and other scalar bosons to long-lived particles and for Hidden Valley Z′ and Stealth SUSY benchmark models. The first search results for displaced decays in Z′ and Stealth SUSY models are presented. The upper bounds of the excluded proper lifetimes are the most stringent to date.
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewed
dc.identifierPhys.Rev. D92 (2015) 012010; DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26825
dc.language.isoeng
dc.titleSearch for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
dc.typejournal article
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