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# Search for Long-Lived Neutral Particles Decaying to Quark-Antiquark Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at $s =$ 8 TeV

The CMS Collaboration (2015) Search for Long-Lived Neutral Particles Decaying to Quark-Antiquark Pairs in Proton-Proton Collisions at $s =$ 8 TeV. Physical Review D, D91 (1), 012007.

Record type: Article

## Abstract

A search is performed for long-lived massive neutral particles decaying to quark-antiquark pairs. The experimental signature is a distinctive topology of a pair of jets, originating at a secondary vertex. Events were collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data analyzed correspond to an integrated luminosity of 18.5  fb−1. No significant excess is observed above standard model expectations. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the production cross section of a heavy neutral scalar particle, H, in the mass range of 200 to 1000 GeV, decaying promptly into a pair of long-lived neutral X particles in the mass range of 50 to 350 GeV, each in turn decaying into a quark-antiquark pair. For X with mean proper decay lengths of 0.4 to 200 cm, the upper limits are typically 0.5–200  fb. The results are also interpreted in the context of an R-parity-violating supersymmetric model with long-lived neutralinos decaying into a quark-antiquark pair and a muon. For pair production of squarks that promptly decay to neutralinos with mean proper decay lengths of 2–40  cm, the upper limits on the cross section are typically 0.5–3  fb. The above limits are the most stringent on these channels to date.

Published date: 20 January 2015
Organisations: Physics & Astronomy

## Identifiers

Local EPrints ID: 410518
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410518
ISSN: 2470-0010
PURE UUID: f0c99958-f345-44c7-bbe2-0dc24b0bcd06
ORCID for Alexander Belyaev: orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-4408

## Catalogue record

Date deposited: 09 Jun 2017 09:02

## Contributors

Author: Vardan Khachatryan
Corporate Author: The CMS Collaboration