Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at View the sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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High-energy collider experiment, Long-lived particle, Highly ionising, New physics, Multiple electric charges

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In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 722, No. 4-5, 24.05.2013, p. 305-323.

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title = "Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at View the sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector",

abstract = "A search for highly ionising, penetrating particles with electric charges from |q| = 2e to 6e is performed using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Proton-proton collision data taken at sqrt(s)=7 TeV during the 2011 running period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb^-1, are analysed. No signal candidates are observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as mass-exclusion lower limits for a simplified Drell--Yan production model. In this model, masses are excluded from 50 GeV up to 430, 480, 490, 470 and 420 GeV for charges 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e and 6e, respectively. ",

keywords = "High-energy collider experiment, Long-lived particle, Highly ionising, New physics, Multiple electric charges",

author = "Harald Fox and Alexandre Chilingarov and Roger Jones and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Peter Love and Guennadi Borissov and Maria Smizanska and Evelina Bouhova-Thacker and Ruth Davidson and William Dearnaley and James Walder and Gareth Hughes and Robin Long and Adam Barton and Harvey Maddocks and Robert Henderson and {de Mora}, Lee and {The ATLAS collaboration}",

note = "This article is published Open Access at sciencedirect.com. It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. ",

year = "2013",

month = may,

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doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036",

language = "English",

volume = "722",

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journal = "Physics Letters B",

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AU - Jones, Roger

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Smizanska, Maria

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina

AU - Davidson, Ruth

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Walder, James

AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Long, Robin

AU - Barton, Adam

AU - Maddocks, Harvey

AU - Henderson, Robert

AU - de Mora, Lee

AU - The ATLAS collaboration

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N2 - A search for highly ionising, penetrating particles with electric charges from |q| = 2e to 6e is performed using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Proton-proton collision data taken at sqrt(s)=7 TeV during the 2011 running period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb^-1, are analysed. No signal candidates are observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as mass-exclusion lower limits for a simplified Drell--Yan production model. In this model, masses are excluded from 50 GeV up to 430, 480, 490, 470 and 420 GeV for charges 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e and 6e, respectively.

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KW - New physics

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