Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using an ionisation measurement with the ATLAS detector

Agni Bethani; Brian Cox; Jonathan Crane; Cinzia Da Via; Nicholas Dann; Alessandra Forti; David Lack; Frederick Loebinger; Jiri Masik; Stephen Menary; Francisca Munoz Sanchez; Alexander Oh; Emily Orgill; Joleen Pater; Yvonne Peters; Andrew Pilkington; Darren Price; Yang Qin; Jacob Rawling; Nicolas Scharmberg; Savanna Shaw; Stephen Watts; Terence Wyatt; The ATLAS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.055

Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using an ionisation measurement with the ATLAS detector

Agni Bethani
, Brian Cox
, Jonathan Crane
, Cinzia Da Via
, Nicholas Dann
, Alessandra Forti
, David Lack
, Frederick Loebinger
, Jiri Masik
, Stephen Menary
, Francisca Munoz Sanchez
, Alexander Oh
, Emily Orgill
, Joleen Pater
, Yvonne Peters
, Andrew Pilkington
, Darren Price
, Yang Qin
, Jacob Rawling
, Nicolas Scharmberg

Savanna Shaw, Stephen Watts, Terence Wyatt, The ATLAS Collaboration

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Abstract

The inclusive production of four isolated charged leptons in pp collisions is analysed for the presence of hard double-parton scattering, using 20.2 fb ⁻¹ of data recorded in the ATLAS detector at the LHC at centre-of-mass energy s=8 TeV. In the four-lepton invariant-mass range of 80<m _4ℓ <1000 GeV, an artificial neural network is used to enhance the separation between single- and double-parton scattering based on the kinematics of the four leptons in the final state. An upper limit on the fraction of events originating from double-parton scattering is determined at 95% confidence level to be f _DPS =0.042, which results in an estimated lower limit on the effective cross section at 95% confidence level of 1.0 mb.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-116
Number of pages	20
Journal	Physics Letters B
Volume	788
Early online date	1 Nov 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.055
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2019

Keywords

Double Drell–Yan
Double parton-scattering
Four-lepton production
Higgs golden decay channel

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Bethani, A., Cox, B., Crane, J., Da Via, C., Dann, N., Forti, A., Lack, D., Loebinger, F., Masik, J., Menary, S., Munoz Sanchez, F., Oh, A., Orgill, E., Pater, J., Peters, Y., Pilkington, A., Price, D., Qin, Y., Rawling, J., ... The ATLAS Collaboration (2019). Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using an ionisation measurement with the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 788, 96-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.10.055

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Search for heavy charged long-lived particles in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV using an ionisation measurement with the ATLAS detector

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