Search for massive long-lived particles decaying semileptonically at √s=13TeV

Authors
Aaij, R 
Abdelmotteleb, ASW 
Beteta, CA 
Gallego, FJA 
Ackernley, T 

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Abstract

A search is performed for massive long-lived particles (LLP) decaying semileptonically into a muon and two quarks. Two kinds of LLP production processes were considered. In the first, a Higgs-like boson with mass from 30 to 200 GeV is produced by gluon fusion and decays into two LLPs. The analysis covers LLP mass values from 10 GeV up to about one half the Higgs-like boson mass. The second LLP production mode is directly from quark interactions, with LLP masses from 10 to 90 GeV. The LLP lifetimes considered range from 5 to 200 ps. This study uses LHCb data collected from proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 1/fb. No evidence of these long-lived states has been observed, and upper limits on the production cross-section times branching ratio have been set for each model considered.

Publication Date
2022
Online Publication Date
2022-04-28
Acceptance Date
2022-03-06
Keywords
hep-ex, hep-ex
Journal Title
European Physical Journal C
Journal ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
Volume Title
82
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC