Search for long-lived heavy charged particles using a ring imaging Cherenkov technique at LHCb
نویسندگان
- R. Aaij
- B. Adeva
- M. Adinolfi
- A. Affolder
- Z. Ajaltouni
- S. Akar
- J. Albrecht
- F. Alessio
- M. Alexander
- S. Ali
- G. Alkhazov
- P. Alvarez Cartelle
- A. A. Alves Jr
- S. Amato
- S. Amerio
- Y. Amhis
- L. An
- L. Anderlini
- J. Anderson
- M. Andreotti
- J. E. Andrews
- R. B. Appleby
- O. Aquines Gutierrez
- F. Archilli
- P. d’Argent
- A. Artamonov
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- G. Auriemma
- M. Baalouch
- S. Bachmann
- J. J. Back
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- A. Berezhnoy
- R. Bernet
- A. Bertolin
- M.-O. Bettler
- M. van Beuzekom
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چکیده
A search is performed for heavy long-lived charged particles using 3.0 [Formula: see text] of proton-proton collisions collected at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text] 7 and 8 TeV with the LHCb detector. The search is mainly based on the response of the ring imaging Cherenkov detectors to distinguish the heavy, slow-moving particles from muons. No evidence is found for the production of such long-lived states. The results are expressed as limits on the Drell-Yan production of pairs of long-lived particles, with both particles in the LHCb pseudorapidity acceptance, [Formula: see text]. The mass-dependent cross-section upper limits are in the range 2-4 fb (at 95 % CL) for masses between 14 and 309 [Formula: see text].
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دوره 75 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015