Search for pair production of massive particles decaying into three quarks with the ATLAS detector in √s =7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC
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Taylor, Frank E.
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December 2012
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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag
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Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, A. A. Abdelalim, O. Abdinov, et al. “Search for pair production of massive particles decaying into three quarks with the ATLAS detector in $ \sqrt{s}=7\;\mathrm{TeV} $ pp collisions at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2012, no. 12 (December 17, 2012). © CERN, for the benefi t of the ATLAS collaboration
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Abstract
A search is conducted for hadronic three-body decays of a new massive coloured particle in s√ = 7 TeV pp collisions at the LHC using an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb[superscript −1] collected by the ATLAS detector. Supersymmetric gluino pair production in the context of a model with R-parity violation is used as a benchmark scenario. The analysis is divided into two search channels, each optimised separately for their sensitivity to high-mass and low-mass gluino production. The first search channel uses a stringent selection on the transverse momentum of the six leading jets and is performed as a counting experiment. The second search channel focuses on low-mass gluinos produced with a large boost. Large-radius jets are selected and the invariant mass of each of the two leading jets is used as a discriminant between the signal and the background. The results are found to be consistent with Standard Model expectations and limits are set on the allowed gluino mass.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12(2012)086
