TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector
AU - ATLAS Collaboration
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abajyan, T.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdel Khalek, S.
AU - Abdelalim, A. A.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abi, B.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - AbouZeid, O. S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Abreu, H.
AU - Acharya, B. S.
AU - Adamczyk, L.
AU - Adams, D. L.
AU - Addy, T. N.
AU - Adelman, J.
AU - Adomeit, S.
AU - Adragna, P.
AU - Adye, T.
AU - Aefsky, S.
AU - Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A.
AU - Agustoni, M.
AU - Aharrouche, M.
AU - Ahlen, S. P.
AU - Ahles, F.
AU - Ahmad, A.
AU - Ahsan, M.
AU - Aielli, G.
AU - Åkesson, T. P.A.
AU - Akimoto, G.
AU - Akimov, A. V.
AU - Alam, M. A.
AU - Albert, J.
AU - Albrand, S.
AU - Aleksa, M.
AU - Aleksandrov, I. N.
AU - Alessandria, F.
AU - Alexa, C.
AU - Alexander, G.
AU - Alexandre, G.
AU - Alexopoulos, T.
AU - Alhroob, M.
AU - Aliev, M.
AU - Alimonti, G.
AU - Alison, J.
AU - Allbrooke, B. M.M.
AU - Kimura, N.
AU - Yorita, K.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT , Argentina; YerPhI , Armenia; ARC , Australia; BMWF and FWF , Austria; ANAS , Azerbaijan; SSTC , Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP , Brazil; NSERC , NRC and CFI , Canada; CERN ; CONICYT , Chile; CAS , MOST and NSFC , China; COLCIENCIAS , Colombia; MSMT CR , MPO CR and VSC CR , Czech Republic; DNRF , DNSRC and Lundbeck Foundation , Denmark; EPLANET , ERC and NSRF , European Union; IN2P3–CNRS , CEA-DSM/IRFU , France; GNSF , Georgia; BMBF , DFG , HGF , MPG and AvH Foundation , Germany; GSRT and NSRF , Greece; ISF , MINERVA , GIF , DIP and Benoziyo Center , Israel; INFN , Italy; MEXT and JSPS , Japan; CNRST , Morocco; FOM and NWO , Netherlands; BRF and RCN , Norway; MNiSW , Poland; GRICES and FCT , Portugal; MERYS (MECTS) , Romania; MES of Russia and ROSATOM , Russian Federation; JINR ; MSTD , Serbia; MSSR , Slovakia; ARRS and MVZT , Slovenia; DST/NRF , South Africa; MICINN , Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation , Sweden; SER , SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva , Switzerland; NSC , Taiwan; TAEK , Turkey; STFC , the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust , United Kingdom; DOE and NSF , United States of America.
Funding Information:
The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN and the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN–CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA) and in the Tier-2 facilities worldwide.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 CERN
PY - 2013/5/24
Y1 - 2013/5/24
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - High-energy collider experiment
KW - Highly ionising
KW - Long-lived particle
KW - Multiple electric charges
KW - New physics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042013973
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 722
SP - 305
EP - 323
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
IS - 4-5
ER -