Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

G. Aad...[et al.]; Mogens Dam; John Renner Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Jørn Dines Hansen; Peter Henrik Hansen; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Esben Bryndt Klinkby; Troels Christian Petersen; Stefania Xella; Thomas Høvring Kittelmann; Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.010

Search for stable hadronising squarks and gluinos with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC

G. Aad...[et al.], Mogens Dam, John Renner Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Troels Christian Petersen, Stefania Xella, Thomas Høvring Kittelmann, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert

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Abstract

Hitherto unobserved long-lived massive particles with electric and/or colour charge are predicted by a range of theories which extend the Standard Model. In this Letter a search is performed at the ATLAS experiment for slow-moving charged particles produced in proton–proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy at the LHC, using a data-set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb⁻¹. No deviations from Standard Model expectations are found. This result is interpreted in a framework of supersymmetry models in which coloured sparticles can hadronise into long-lived bound hadronic states, termed R-hadrons, and 95% CL limits are set on the production cross-sections of squarks and gluinos. The influence of R-hadron interactions in matter was studied using a number of different models, and lower mass limits for stable sbottoms and stops are found to be 294 and 309 GeV respectively. The lower mass limit for a stable gluino lies in the range from 562 to 586 GeV depending on the model assumed. Each of these constraints is the most stringent to date.

Original language	English
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	701
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-19
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0370-2693
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.010
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2011

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