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Search for stopped long-lived particles produced in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
| dc.contributor.author | CMS collaboration (2191 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hollar, Jonathan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nayak, Aruna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Almeida, Nuno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bargassa, Pedrame | |
| dc.contributor.author | David Tinoco Mendes, Andre | |
| dc.contributor.author | Faccioli, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fernandes, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ferreira Parracho, Pedro Guilherme | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gallinaro, Michele | |
| dc.contributor.author | Seixas, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varela, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vischia, Pietro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lloret Iglesias, Lara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musella, Pasquale | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rodrigues Antunes, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pela, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leonardo, Nuno | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-03T20:21:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-03T20:21:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-07 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-03T20:21:58Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | A search has been performed for long-lived particles that have stopped in the CMS detector, during 7 TeV proton-proton operations of the CERN LHC. The existence of such particles could be inferred from observation of their decays when there were no proton-proton collisions in the CMS detector, namely during gaps between LHC beam crossings. Using a data set in which CMS recorded an integrated luminosity of 4.0 inverse femtobarns, and a search interval corresponding to 246 hours of trigger live time, 12 events are observed, with a mean background prediction of 8.6 +/- 2.4 events. Limits are presented at 95% confidence level on long-lived gluino and stop production, over 13 orders of magnitude of particle lifetime. Assuming the "cloud model" of R-hadron interactions, a gluino with mass below 640 GeV and a stop with mass below 340 GeV are excluded, for lifetimes between 10 microseconds and 1000 seconds. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | JHEP 1208 (2012) 026; DOI 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)026 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2012)026 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26210 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Search for stopped long-lived particles produced in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |