Search For Heavy Long Lived Multi Charged Particles In Pp Collisions At Arrow

Search for Heavy Long-lived Multi-charged Particles in Pp Collisions at [arrow]"

A search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles is performed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data collected in 2012 at [arrow]" = 8 TeV from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb-1 are examined. Particles producing anomalously high ionisation, consistent with long-lived massive particles with electric charges from.

Search for Metastable Heavy Charged Particles with Large Ionisation Energy Loss in Pp Collisions at [arrow]"

The many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged heavy long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons or charginos. If produced at the Large Hadron Collider, these particles should be moving non-relativistically and are therefore identifiable through the measurement of an anomalously large specific energy loss in the ATLAS pixel detector. Measuring heavy long-lived particles through their track parameters in the vicinity of the interaction vertex provides sensitivity to metastable particles with lifetimes from 0.6 ns to 30 ns. A search for such particles with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.4 fb-1 of pp collisions at [arrow]"=8 TeV. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background expectation is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadrons and chargino production are set. Gluino R-hadrons with 10 ns lifetime and masses up to 1185 GeV are excluded at 95 % confidence level, and so are charginos with 15 ns lifetime and masses up to 482 GeV.

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