A search is performed for long-lived massive neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology of a pair of jets, originating at a secondary vertex. Events were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data analyzed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 18.5 fb(-1). No significant excess is observed above standard model expectations. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a heavy neutral scalar particle, H, in the mass range of 200 to 1000 GeV, decaying promptly into a pair of long-lived neutral X particles in the mass range of 50 to 350 GeV, each in turn decaying into a quark-antiquark pair. For X with mean proper decay lengths of 0.4 to 200 cm, the upper limits are typically 0.5-200 fb. The results are also interpreted in the context of an R-parity-violating supersymmetric model with long-lived neutralinos decaying into a quark-antiquark pair and a muon. For pair production of squarks that promptly decay to neutralinos with mean proper decay lengths of 2-40 cm, the upper limits on the cross section are typically 0.5-3 fb. The above limits are the most stringent on these channels to date.

Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV / Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Eroe, J., Fabjan, C., Friedl, M., Fruhwirth, R., Ghete, V.M., Hartl, C., Hormann, N., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., Kiesenhofer, W., Knunz, V., Krammer, M., Kratschmer, I., Liko, D., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 91:1(2015). [10.1103/PhysRevD.91.012007]

Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV

MARZOCCHI, BADDER;BARONE, Luciano Maria;D'IMPERIO, GIULIA;DEL RE, Daniele;LONGO, Egidio;MARGAROLI, Fabrizio;ORGANTINI, Giovanni;PARAMATTI, Riccardo;RAHATLOU, SHAHRAM;SANTANASTASIO, FRANCESCO;
2015

Abstract

A search is performed for long-lived massive neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology of a pair of jets, originating at a secondary vertex. Events were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data analyzed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 18.5 fb(-1). No significant excess is observed above standard model expectations. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a heavy neutral scalar particle, H, in the mass range of 200 to 1000 GeV, decaying promptly into a pair of long-lived neutral X particles in the mass range of 50 to 350 GeV, each in turn decaying into a quark-antiquark pair. For X with mean proper decay lengths of 0.4 to 200 cm, the upper limits are typically 0.5-200 fb. The results are also interpreted in the context of an R-parity-violating supersymmetric model with long-lived neutralinos decaying into a quark-antiquark pair and a muon. For pair production of squarks that promptly decay to neutralinos with mean proper decay lengths of 2-40 cm, the upper limits on the cross section are typically 0.5-3 fb. The above limits are the most stringent on these channels to date.
2015
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Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV / Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A.M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., Dragicevic, M., Eroe, J., Fabjan, C., Friedl, M., Fruhwirth, R., Ghete, V.M., Hartl, C., Hormann, N., Hrubec, J., Jeitler, M., Kiesenhofer, W., Knunz, V., Krammer, M., Kratschmer, I., Liko, D., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW D, PARTICLES, FIELDS, GRAVITATION, AND COSMOLOGY. - ISSN 1550-7998. - 91:1(2015). [10.1103/PhysRevD.91.012007]
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