Search for long-lived particles that decay into final states containing two electrons or two muons in proton-proton collisions at root s=8Tev
dc.contributor.author | Khachatryan, V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Işıldak, Bora | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-04T08:47:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-04T08:47:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-03-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1550-2368 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10679/4403 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052012 | |
dc.description.abstract | A search is performed for long-lived particles that decay into final states that include a pair of electrons or a pair of muons. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology consisting of a pair of charged leptons originating from a displaced secondary vertex. Events corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 (20.5) fb−1 in the electron (muon) channel were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV. No significant excess is observed above standard model expectations. Upper limits on the product of the cross section and branching fraction of such a signal are presented as a function of the long-lived particle’s mean proper decay length. The limits are presented in an approximately model-independent way, allowing them to be applied to a wide class of models yielding the above topology. Over much of the investigated parameter space, the limits obtained are the most stringent to date. In the specific case of a model in which a Higgs boson in the mass range 125–1000 GeV/c2 decays into a pair of long-lived neutral bosons in the mass range 20–350 GeV/c2, each of which can then decay to dileptons, the upper limits obtained are typically in the range 0.2–10 fb for mean proper decay lengths of the long-lived particles in the range 0.01–100 cm. In the case of the lowest Higgs mass considered (125 GeV/c2), the limits are in the range 2–50 fb. These limits are sensitive to Higgs boson branching fractions as low as 10−4. | |
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dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.relation | info:turkey/grantAgreement/TUBITAK | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Physical Review D | |
dc.rights | restrictedAccess | |
dc.title | Search for long-lived particles that decay into final states containing two electrons or two muons in proton-proton collisions at root s=8Tev | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
dc.publicationstatus | published | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Özyeğin University | |
dc.contributor.authorID | (ORCID 0000-0002-0283-5234 & YÖK ID 124605) Işıldak, Bora | |
dc.contributor.ozuauthor | Işıldak, Bora | |
dc.creator | The CMS Collaboration | |
dc.identifier.volume | 91 | |
dc.identifier.issue | 5 | |
dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000352154400001 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.052012 | |
dc.contributor.authorMale | 1 |
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