Search for heavy metastable particles decaying to jet pairs in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
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Author(s)
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Makhoul, Khaldoun
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Bauer, Gerry P
Date Issued
January 2012
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
Citation
Aaltonen, T. et al. “Search for heavy metastable particles decaying to jet pairs in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV.” Physical Review D 85.1 (2012). © 2012 American Physical Society
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Abstract
A search is performed for heavy metastable particles that decay into jet pairs with a macroscopic lifetime (cτ∼1 cm) in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using data from the CDF II detector at Fermilab corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb[superscript -1]. To estimate the standard model background, a data-driven approach is used. Probability-density functions are constructed to model secondary vertices from known processes. No statistically significant excess is observed above the background. Limits on the production cross section in a hidden valley benchmark phenomenology are set for various Higgs boson masses as well as metastable particle masses and lifetimes.
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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/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.012007
