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Search for long-lived heavy charged particles using a ring imaging Cherenkov technique at LHCb

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A search is performed for heavy long-lived charged particles using 3.0 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions collected at √s = 7 and 8 TeV with the LHCb detector. The search is mainly based on the response of the ring imaging Cherenkov detectors to distinguish the heavy, slow-moving particles from muons. No evidence is found for the production of such long-lived states. The results are expressed as limits on the Drell-Yan production of pairs of long-lived particles, with both particles in the LHCb pseudorapidity acceptance, 1.8 <η< 4.9. The mass-dependent cross-section upper limits are in the range 2-4 fb (at 95 % CL) for masses between 14 and 309 GeV/c2.

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Società Italiana di Fisica & Springer Verlag

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European Physical Journal C, 2015, vol. 2021, p. 1-14

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Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)

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Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)

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Search for long-lived heavy charged particles using a ring imaging Cherenkov technique at LHCb