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T1 - Search for heavy, long-lived, charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV using the ATLAS experiment and the full Run 2 dataset
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
AU - Barton, A.E.
AU - Bertram, I.A.
AU - Borissov, G.
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.
AU - Fox, H.
AU - Henderson, R.C.W.
AU - Jones, R.W.L.
AU - Kartvelishvili, V.
AU - Love, P.A.
AU - Meng, L.
AU - Muenstermann, D.
AU - Rybacki, K.
AU - Sanderswood, Izaac
AU - Smizanska, M.
AU - Spinali, S.
AU - Wharton, A.M.
AU - Yexley, Melissa
PY - 2023/6/26
Y1 - 2023/6/26
N2 - This paper presents a search for hypothetical massive, charged, long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV. These particles are expected to move significantly slower than the speed of light and should be identifiable by their high transverse momenta and anomalously large specific ionisation losses, dE/dx. Trajectories reconstructed solely by the inner tracking system and a dE/dx measurement in the pixel detector layers provide sensitivity to particles with lifetimes down to O(1) ns with a mass, measured using the Bethe–Bloch relation, ranging from 100 GeV to 3 TeV. Interpretations for pair-production of R-hadrons, charginos and staus in scenarios of supersymmetry compatible with these particles being long-lived are presented, with mass limits extending considerably beyond those from previous searches in broad ranges of lifetime.
AB - This paper presents a search for hypothetical massive, charged, long-lived particles with the ATLAS detector at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at s√ = 13 TeV. These particles are expected to move significantly slower than the speed of light and should be identifiable by their high transverse momenta and anomalously large specific ionisation losses, dE/dx. Trajectories reconstructed solely by the inner tracking system and a dE/dx measurement in the pixel detector layers provide sensitivity to particles with lifetimes down to O(1) ns with a mass, measured using the Bethe–Bloch relation, ranging from 100 GeV to 3 TeV. Interpretations for pair-production of R-hadrons, charginos and staus in scenarios of supersymmetry compatible with these particles being long-lived are presented, with mass limits extending considerably beyond those from previous searches in broad ranges of lifetime.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)158
DO - 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)158
M3 - Journal article
VL - 2023
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 6
M1 - 158
ER -