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| CMS-PAS-EXO-16-004 | ||
| Search for stopped long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV | ||
| CMS Collaboration | ||
| May 2017 | ||
| Abstract: A search is presented for long-lived particles that lose sufficient kinetic energy and come to rest in the CMS detector. If such a particle decays to at least one standard model particle, it would produce a spectacular signature: a high-energy jet that is not coincident with the proton-proton collisions. During the time intervals without collisions, the detector is quiet and only rare background processes must be considered. The 2015 search is performed using a 2.7 fb$^{-1}$ sample of pp collision run data at $\sqrt{s}= $ 13 TeV, corresponding to 135 hours of trigger livetime, while the 2016 search is carried out using a 36.8 fb$^{-1}$ sample of pp collision run data at the same energy, which corresponds to 586 hours of trigger livetime. Four events are observed in the 2015 analysis and thirteen events are observed in the 2016 analysis; both observed numbers of events are consistent with the predicted backgrounds. Limits are placed on the mass of gluinos and stop quarks with lifetimes spanning 13 orders of magnitude. Assuming a cloud model of R-hadron interactions, and combining the results from the 2015 and 2016 analyses, for $E_{\mathrm{g}} > $ 130 GeV and $BR(\tilde{g} \rightarrow g\tilde{\chi}^0) = $ 100%, gluinos with lifetimes from 10 $\mu$s to 1000 s and $m_{\tilde{g}} < $ 1385 GeV are excluded. Under a similar assumption, $E_{\mathrm{t}} > $ 170 GeV and $BR(\tilde{t} \rightarrow t\tilde{\chi}^0) = $ 100%, we are able to exclude long-lived stop quarks with lifetimes from 10 $\mu$s to 1000 s and $m_{\tilde{t}} < $ 744 GeV. These are the strongest limits on stopped long-lived particles to date. | ||
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These preliminary results are superseded in this paper, JHEP 05 (2018) 127. The superseded preliminary plots can be found here. |
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| Figures | |
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Figure 1:
$\varepsilon _{\mathrm {reco}}$ for $\tilde{g}$ and $\tilde{t}$ R-hadrons that stopped in the EB or HB as a function of energy of the SM daughter particle. The left plot corresponds to the 2015 MC simulation and the right one corresponds to the 2016 MC simulation. The difference between the two plots is due to the removal of the beam halo filter in the trigger in 2016. The shaded areas correspond to the systematic uncertainties. |
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Figure 1-a:
$\varepsilon _{\mathrm {reco}}$ for $\tilde{g}$ and $\tilde{t}$ R-hadrons that stopped in the EB or HB as a function of energy of the SM daughter particle. The plot corresponds to the 2015 MC simulation. The shaded areas correspond to the systematic uncertainties. |
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Figure 1-b:
$\varepsilon _{\mathrm {reco}}$ for $\tilde{g}$ and $\tilde{t}$ R-hadrons that stopped in the EB or HB as a function of energy of the SM daughter particle. The plot corresponds to the 2016 MC simulation. The shaded areas correspond to the systematic uncertainties. |
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Figure 2:
Combined expected and observed 95% CL limits on gluino and stop pair production cross section (left-hand axes) using the cloud model of R-hadron interactions, as a function of particle lifetime. The discontinuous structure observed between $10^{-7}$ s and $10^{-5}$ s is due to the increase of the number of observed events in our search window as lifetime increases. |
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Figure 2-a:
Combined expected and observed 95% CL limits on gluino pair production cross section (left-hand axes) using the cloud model of R-hadron interactions, as a function of particle lifetime. The discontinuous structure observed between $10^{-7}$ s and $10^{-5}$ s is due to the increase of the number of observed events in our search window as lifetime increases. |
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Figure 2-b:
Combined expected and observed 95% CL limits on stop pair production cross section (left-hand axes) using the cloud model of R-hadron interactions, as a function of particle lifetime. The discontinuous structure observed between $10^{-7}$ s and $10^{-5}$ s is due to the increase of the number of observed events in our search window as lifetime increases. |
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Figure 3:
Combined expected and observed 95% CL limits on gluino and stop mass using the cloud model of R-hadron interactions, as a function of particle lifetime. The discontinuous structure observed between $10^{-7}$ s and $10^{-5}$ s is due to the increase of the number of observed events in our search window as lifetime increases. |
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Figure 4:
Combined observed 95% CL limits in the gluino mass/ neutralino mass plane, for lifetimes between 10 $\mu$s and 1000 s |
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Figure 5:
Combined observed 95% CL limits in the stop mass/ neutralino mass plane, for lifetimes between 10 $\mu$s and 1000 s |
| Tables | |
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Table 1:
Summary of $\varepsilon _{\mathrm {signal}}$ for different signals. |
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Table 2:
The systematic uncertainties in the 2015 and 2016 searches. |
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Table 3:
Summary of background predictions and search results for the 2015/2016 search. |
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Table 4:
Results of the 2016 counting experiments for selected lifetime hypotheses. |
| Summary |
| A search has been made for long-lived particles that have stopped in the CMS detector after being produced in 13 TeV pp collisions at the CERN LHC. The subsequent decays of these particles were looked for during gaps between proton bunches in the LHC beams. In 2.7 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV pp collision run data, with a search interval corresponding to 135 hours of trigger livetime in 2015 and 36.8 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV pp collision run data collected in a search interval of 586 hours of trigger livetime for 2016, no excess above the estimated background was observed. Cross section and mass limits are presented at 95% CL on gluino and stop production over 13 orders of magnitude in the mean proper lifetime of the stopped particle. Assuming a cloud model of R-hadron interactions, and combining the results from the 2015 and 2016 analyses, for $E_{\mathrm{g}} > $ 130 GeV and $BR(\tilde{g} \rightarrow g\tilde{\chi}^0) = $ 100%, gluinos with lifetimes from 10 $\mu$s to $1000s$ and $m_{\tilde{g}} < $ 1385 GeV are excluded. Under a similar assumption, $E_{\mathrm{t}} > $ 170 GeV and $BR(\tilde{t} \rightarrow t\tilde{\chi}^0) = $ 100%, we are able to exclude long-lived stop quarks with lifetimes from 10 $\mu$s to 1000 s and $m_{\tilde{t}} < $ 744 GeV. These are the strongest limits on stopped long-lived particles to date. |
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