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在ATLAS calorimeter中寻找衰变成位移喷流的中性长寿命粒子,与轻子或喷流关联,利用pp碰撞于√s=13 TeV

Search for neutral long-lived particles that decay into displaced jets in the ATLAS calorimeter in association with leptons or jets using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH (CERN)(欧洲核子研究中心)

ATLAS Collaboration

AI总结:

ATLAS利用pp碰撞数据,在ATLAS calorimeter中搜索中性长寿命粒子,排除了Higgs玻色子衰变分支比和暗光子等模型,首次探测长寿命axion-like粒子。

摘要:

本文报告了利用LHC提供的140 fb⁻¹质子-质子碰撞数据,在ATLAS hadronic calorimeter中寻找中性长寿命粒子(LLPs)的搜索。分析由三个通道组成。第一个通道针对成对产生的LLPs,其中至少一个LLP具有足够低的boost,其衰变产物可以被分辨为单独的喷流。第二和第三个通道分别针对与W或Z玻色子关联产生的LLPs,后者衰变成轻子。每个通道的不同搜索区域针对不同的动量学范围,以覆盖广泛的LLP质量假设和模型。未观察到相对于背景预测的事件超额。对于适当的衰变长度范围(30厘米到4.5米,取决于LLP质量),Higgs玻色子衰变成两个hadronically衰变中性LLP的分支比大于1%被排除在95%置信水平下,比之前在hadronic calorimeter中的搜索结果提高了三倍。长寿命暗光子与Z玻色子关联的产生截面大于0.1 pb被排除,暗光子的平均proper decay长度范围为20厘米到50米,比之前的ATLAS结果提高了一个数量级。最后,长寿命photo-phobic axion-like粒子模型首次被ATLAS探测,生产截面大于0.1 pb被排除在0.1毫米到10米范围内。

英文摘要:

A search for neutral long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying in the ATLAS hadronic calorimeter using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV delivered by the LHC is presented. The analysis is composed of three channels. The first targets pair-produced LLPs, where at least one LLP is produced with sufficiently low boost that its decay products can be resolved as separate jets. The second and third channels target LLPs respectively produced in association with a $W$ or $Z$ boson that decays leptonically. In each channel, different search regions target different kinematic regimes, to cover a broad range of LLP mass hypotheses and models. No excesses of events relative to the background predictions are observed. Higgs boson branching fractions to pairs of hadronically decaying neutral LLPs larger than 1% are excluded at 95% confidence level for proper decay lengths in the range of 30 cm to 4.5 m depending on the LLP mass, a factor of three improvement on previous searches in the hadronic calorimeter. The production of long-lived dark photons in association with a $Z$ boson with cross-sections above 0.1 pb is excluded for dark photon mean proper decay lengths in the range of 20 cm to 50 m, improving previous ATLAS results by an order of magnitude. Finally, long-lived photo-phobic axion-like particle models are probed for the first time by ATLAS, with production cross-sections above 0.1 pb excluded in the 0.1 mm to 10 m range.

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