Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Journal | Physics Letters B |
| Volume | Issue number | 722 | 4-5 |
| Pages (from-to) | 305-323 |
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| Abstract |
A search for highly ionising, penetrating particles with electric charges from |q|=2e to 6e is performed using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Proton-proton collision data taken at √s = 7 TeV during the 2011 running period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb−1, are analysed. No signal candidates are observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as mass-exclusion lower limits for a simplified Drell-Yan production model. In this model, masses are excluded from 50 GeV up to 430, 480, 490, 470 and 420 GeV for charges 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e and 6e, respectively.
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| Document type | Article |
| Note | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036 |
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Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
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