TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for the Production of a Long-Lived Neutral Particle Decaying within the ATLAS Hadronic Calorimeter in Association with a Z Boson from pp Collisions at root s=13 TeV
AU - Aaboud, M.
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Abeloos, B
AU - Abhayasinghe, DK
AU - Abidi, S.H.
AU - Abouzeid, Ossama Sherif Alexander
AU - Abraham, NL
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Abulaiti, Y.
AU - Acharya, B.S.
AU - Adachi, Sosuke
AU - Adam, Luise
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adersberger, M.
AU - Adiguzel, A.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Affolder, A. A.
AU - Afik, Y.
AU - Agheorghiesei, C.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Ahmadov, F.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Stark, Simon Holm
AU - de Almeida Dias, Flavia
AU - Alonso Diaz, Alejandro
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - Besjes, Geert-Jan
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Bajic, Milena
AU - hqz214, hqz214
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
PY - 2019/4/15
Y1 - 2019/4/15
N2 - This Letter presents a search for the production of a long-lived neutral particle (Zd) decaying within the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, in association with a standard model (SM) Z boson produced via an intermediate scalar boson, where Z→+ (=e, μ). The data used were collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 pp collisions with a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1±0.8 fb-1. No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. Limits on the production cross section of the scalar boson times its decay branching fraction into the long-lived neutral particle are derived as a function of the mass of the intermediate scalar boson, the mass of the long-lived neutral particle, and its cτ from a few centimeters to one hundred meters. In the case that the intermediate scalar boson is the SM Higgs boson, its decay branching fraction to a long-lived neutral particle with a cτ approximately between 0.1 and 7 m is excluded with a 95% confidence level up to 10% for mZd between 5 and 15 GeV.
AB - This Letter presents a search for the production of a long-lived neutral particle (Zd) decaying within the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter, in association with a standard model (SM) Z boson produced via an intermediate scalar boson, where Z→+ (=e, μ). The data used were collected by the ATLAS detector during 2015 and 2016 pp collisions with a center-of-mass energy of s=13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1±0.8 fb-1. No significant excess of events is observed above the expected background. Limits on the production cross section of the scalar boson times its decay branching fraction into the long-lived neutral particle are derived as a function of the mass of the intermediate scalar boson, the mass of the long-lived neutral particle, and its cτ from a few centimeters to one hundred meters. In the case that the intermediate scalar boson is the SM Higgs boson, its decay branching fraction to a long-lived neutral particle with a cτ approximately between 0.1 and 7 m is excluded with a 95% confidence level up to 10% for mZd between 5 and 15 GeV.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.151801
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31050493
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 122
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 15
M1 - 151801
ER -