A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50GeV/c2 and a lifetime between 2 and 500 ps, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb-1, collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced in the decay of a 125GeV/c2 Standard-Model-like Higgs boson. The experimental signature is a single long-lived particle, identified by a displaced vertex with two associated jets. No excess above background is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the mass and lifetime of the long-lived particle.

Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 77(12) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5178-x].

Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs

Belloli, N.;Borgheresi, A.;Borsato, M.;Calvi, M.;Carniti, P.;Cassina, L.;Fazzini, D.;Gotti, C.
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Grillo, L.;Martinelli, M.;Matteuzzi, C.;Petruzzo, M.;
2017

Abstract

A search is presented for long-lived particles with a mass between 25 and 50GeV/c2 and a lifetime between 2 and 500 ps, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0fb-1, collected by the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced in the decay of a 125GeV/c2 Standard-Model-like Higgs boson. The experimental signature is a single long-lived particle, identified by a displaced vertex with two associated jets. No excess above background is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the mass and lifetime of the long-lived particle.
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Engineering (miscellaneous); Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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2017
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12
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Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Albrecht, J., et al. (2017). Updated search for long-lived particles decaying to jet pairs. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS, 77(12) [10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5178-x].
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