Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

G Aad; T Abajyan; B Abbott; J Abdallah; S Abdel Khalek; AA Abdelalim; O Abdinov; R Aben; B Abi; M Abolins; OS AbouZeid; H Abramowicz; H Abreu; BS Acharya; L Adamczyk; DL Adams; TN Addy; J Adelman; S Adomeit; P Adragna; T Adye; S Aefsky; JA Aguilar-Saavedra; M Agustoni; M Aharrouche; SP Ahlen; F Ahles; A Ahmad; M Ahsan; G Aielli; TPA Åkesson; G Akimoto; AV Akimov; MA Alam; J Albert; S Albrand; M Aleksa; IN Aleksandrov; F Alessandria; C Alexa; G Alexander; G Alexandre; T Alexopoulos; M Alhroob; M Aliev; G Alimonti; J Alison; BMM Allbrooke; PP Allport; SE Allwood-Spiers; J Almond; A Aloisio; R Alon; A Alonso; F Alonso; A Altheimer; B Alvarez Gonzalez; MG Alviggi; K Amako; C Amelung; VV Ammosov; SP Amor Dos Santos; A Amorim; N Amram; C Anastopoulos; LS Ancu; N Andari; T Andeen; CF Anders; G Anders; KJ Anderson; A Andreazza; V Andrei; ML Andrieux; XS Anduaga; S Angelidakis; P Anger; A Angerami; F Anghinolfi; A Anisenkov; N Anjos; A Annovi; A Antonaki; M Antonelli; A Antonov; J Antos; F Anulli; M Aoki; S Aoun; L Aperio Bella; R Apolle; G Arabidze; I Aracena; Y Arai; ATH Arce; S Arfaoui; JF Arguin; S Argyropoulos; E Arik; M Arik

Journal article

Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

G Aad, T Abajyan, B Abbott, J Abdallah, S Abdel Khalek, AA Abdelalim, O Abdinov, R Aben, B Abi, M Abolins, OS AbouZeid, H Abramowicz, H Abreu, BS Acharya, L Adamczyk, DL Adams, TN Addy, J Adelman, S Adomeit, P Adragna Show all

Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036

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.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Anna Phan Author

Elisabetta Barberio Author

Matteo Volpi Author

G. N. Taylor Author

Grants

Awarded by Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación

Funding Acknowledgements

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.