The results of the first search for long-lived gluinos produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are presented. The search looks for evidence of long-lived particles that stop in the CMS detector and decay in the quiescent periods between beam crossings. In a dataset with a peak instantaneous luminosity of 1 x 10(32) cm(-2) s(-1), an integrated luminosity of 10 pb(-1), and a search interval corresponding to 62 hours of LHC operation, no significant excess above background was observed. Limits at the 95% confidence level on gluino pair production over 13 orders of magnitude of gluino lifetime are set. For a mass difference m(g~) - m(chi~(1)(0)) >100 GeV/c(2), and assuming BR(g~ -> g(chi~(1)(0)) = 100%, m((g) over tilde) < 370 GeV/c(2) are excluded for lifetimes from 10 mu s to 1000 s.

Search for Stopped Gluinos in pp Collisions at root s=7 TeV

AMAPANE, Nicola Carlo;ARGIRO', Stefano;BOTTA, CRISTINA;CASTELLO, Roberto;COSTA, Marco;MIGLIORE, Ernesto;MONACO, Vincenzo;MUSICH, MARCO;OBERTINO, Maria Margherita;PELLICCIONI, Mario;ROMERO, Alessandra;SACCHI, Roberto;SOLA, VALENTINA;SOLANO, Ada Maria;TROCINO, DANIELE;COVARELLI, Roberto;BELLAN, Riccardo;
2011-01-01

Abstract

The results of the first search for long-lived gluinos produced in 7 TeV pp collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider are presented. The search looks for evidence of long-lived particles that stop in the CMS detector and decay in the quiescent periods between beam crossings. In a dataset with a peak instantaneous luminosity of 1 x 10(32) cm(-2) s(-1), an integrated luminosity of 10 pb(-1), and a search interval corresponding to 62 hours of LHC operation, no significant excess above background was observed. Limits at the 95% confidence level on gluino pair production over 13 orders of magnitude of gluino lifetime are set. For a mass difference m(g~) - m(chi~(1)(0)) >100 GeV/c(2), and assuming BR(g~ -> g(chi~(1)(0)) = 100%, m((g) over tilde) < 370 GeV/c(2) are excluded for lifetimes from 10 mu s to 1000 s.
2011
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V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;T. Bergauer;M. Dragicevic;J. Eroe;C. Fabjan;M. Friedl;R. Fruehwirth;V. M. Ghete;J. Hamme...espandi
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