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

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Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physical Review D, Vol. 92, No. 1, 012010, 01.07.2015.

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The ATLAS collaboration 2015, 'Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector', Physical Review D, vol. 92, no. 1, 012010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010

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The ATLAS collaboration (2015). Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D, 92(1), Article 012010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010

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The ATLAS collaboration. Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical Review D. 2015 Jul 1;92(1):012010. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.92.012010

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physical Review D. 2015 ; Vol. 92, No. 1.

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title = "Search for long-lived, weakly interacting particles that decay to displaced hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at √s =8  TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A 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.",
author = "Adam Barton and Michael Beattie and Guennadi Borissov and Eva Bouhova-Thacker and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Kathryn Grimm and Robert Henderson and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Robin Long and Peter Love and Harvey Maddocks and Malcolm Skinner and Maria Smizanska and Andy Wharton and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Eva

AU - Dearnaley, William

AU - Fox, Harald

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AU - Hughes, Gareth

AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang

AU - Long, Robin

AU - Love, Peter

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