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Search for massive long-lived highly ionising particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>25/04/2011
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number5
Volume698
Number of pages18
Pages (from-to)353-370
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

A search is made for massive highly ionising particles with lifetimes in excess of 100 ns, with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, using 3.1 pb(-1) of pp collision data taken at root s = 7 TeV. The signature of energy loss in the ATLAS inner detector and electromagnetic calorimeter is used. No such particles are found and limits on the production cross section for electric charges 6e <= vertical bar q vertical bar <= 17e and masses 200 GeV <= m <= 1000 GeV are set in the range 1-12 pb for different hypotheses on the production mechanism. (C) 2011 CERN.

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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.