Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3534-2

Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Atlas Collaboration

Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Michigan State University
University of Toronto
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
CERN
Stockholm University
The Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
King's College London
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
AGH University of Krakow
United States Department of Energy
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
University of Liverpool
University of Belgrade
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
NOVA University Lisbon
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Lund University
The University of Tokyo
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Université Grenoble Alpes
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
University of Birmingham
University of Naples Federico II
University of Copenhagen
Queen Mary University of London

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A search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles is performed using the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Data collected in 2012 at√s = 8TeV from pp collisions corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb^-1 are examined. Particles producing anomalously high ionisation, consistent with long-livedmassive particleswith electric charges from |q| = 2e to |q| = 6e are searched for. No signal candidate events are observed, and 95% confidence level crosssection upper limits are interpreted as lower mass limits for a Drell-Yan productionmodel. The mass limits range between 660 and 785 GeV.

Original language	English
Article number	362
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	75
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3534-2
State	Published - Aug 10 2015

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Search for heavy long-lived multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

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