Search for new physics with long-lived particles decaying to photons and missing energy in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV
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The CMS Collaboration
Apyan, Aram
Bauer, Gerry P
Bendavid, Joshua L.
Busza, Wit
Butz, Erik M.
Cali, Ivan Amos
Chan, M.
Dutta, Valentina
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Date Issued
2012
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Chatrchyan, S., et al. "Search for New Physics with Long-Lived Particles Decaying to Photons and Missing Energy in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev." Journal of High Energy Physics 11 (2012).
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Abstract
A search is performed for long-lived neutral particles decaying into a photon and invisible particles. An example of such a signature is the decay of the lightest neutralino with nonzero lifetime into a gravitino and a photon in gauge-mediated supersymmetry, with the neutralino as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle and the gravitino as the lightest. The search uses events containing photons, missing transverse energy, and jets. The impact parameter of the photon relative to the beam-beam collision point can be reconstructed using converted photons. The method is sensitive to lifetimes of the order of 0.1 to 1 ns. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.23 fb-1 in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV, recorded in the first part of 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC. Cross-section limits are presented on pair production for such particles, each of which decays into a photon and invisible particles. The observed 95% confidence level limits vary between 0.11 and 0.21 pb, depending on the neutral particle lifetime.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2012 CERN for the benefit of the CMS collaboration.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2012)172
