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Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

G. Aad , S. Albrand (1) , M.L. Andrieux (1) , Q. Buat (1) , B. Clement (1) , J. Collot (1) , S. Crépé-Renaudin (1) , B. Dechenaux (1) , T. Delemontex (1) , P.A. Delsart (1) , M.H. Genest (1) , J.Y. Hostachy (1) , E. Laisne (1) , F. Ledroit-Guillon (1) , A. Lleres (1) , A. Lucotte (1) , F. Malek (1) , J. Stark (1) , X. Sun (1) , B. Trocmé (1) , C. Weydert (1) , C. Biscarat (2) , G. Rahal (2) , S. Abdel Khalek (3) , N. Andari (3) , E. Augé (3) , M. Benoit (3) , S. Binet (3) , C. Bourdarios (3) , C. de La Taille (3) , J.B. de Vivie de Regie (3) , L. Duflot (3) , M. Escalier (3) , L. Fayard (3) , D. Fournier (3) , J.-F. Grivaz (3) , S. Henrot-Versillé (3) , J. Hrivnac (3) , L. Iconomidou-Fayard (3) , J. Idarraga (3) , M. Kado (3) , N. Lorenzo Martinez (3) , A. Lounis (3) , N. Makovec (3) , F. Niedercorn (3) , L. Poggioli (3) , P. Puzo (3) , A. Renaud (3) , D. Rousseau (3) , G. Rybkin (3) , J.B. Sauvan (3) , J. Schaarschmidt (3) , A.C. Schaffer (3) , L. Serin (3) , S. Simion (3) , R. Tanaka (3) , M. Teinturier (3) , J.J. Veillet (3) , D. Zerwas (3) , Zhiqing Zhang (3) , D. Boumediene (4) , Emmanuel Busato (4) , D. Calvet (4) , S. Calvet (4) , Reina Coromoto Camacho Toro (4) , Diane Cinca (4) , J. Donini (4) , N. Ghodbane (4) , Ph. Gris (4) , C. Guicheney (4) , H. Liao (4) , D. Pallin (4) , Daniela Paredes Hernández (4) , F. Podlyski (4) , C. Santoni (4) , F. Vazeille (4) , L. Aperio Bella (5) , B. Aubert (5) , N. Berger (5) , J. Colas (5) , M. Delmastro (5) , L. Di Ciaccio (5) , T.K.O. Doan (5) , S. Elles (5) , C. Goy (5) , T. Hryn'Ova (5) , S. Jézéquel (5) , R. Lafaye (5) , J. Leveque (5) , V.P. Lombardo (5) , N. Massol (5) , P. Perrodo (5) , E. Petit (5) , H. Przysiezniak (5) , E. Richter-Was (5) , G. Sauvage (5) , E. Sauvan (5) , M. Schwoerer (5) , T. Todorov (5) , D. Tsionou (5) , I. Wingerter-Seez (5) , R. Zitoun (5) , S. Aoun (6) , C. P. Bee (6) , C. Bertella (6) , N. Bousson (6) , J. C. Clémens (6) , Y. Coadou (6) , F. Djama (6) , F. Etienne (6) , L. Feligioni (6) , D. Hoffmann (6) , F. Hubaut (6) , E. B. F. G. Knoops (6) , E. Le Guirriec (6) , B. Li (6) , J. Maurer (6) , E. Monnier (6) , J. Odier (6) , P. Pralavorio (6) , A. Rozanov (6) , M. Talby (6) , N. Tannoury (6) , E. Tiouchichine (6) , S. Tisserant (6) , J. Toth (6) , F. Touchard (6) , M. Ughetto (6) , L. Vacavant (6) , F. Vannucci (7)
G. Aad
E. Augé
D. Rousseau
Zhiqing Zhang
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S. Calvet
N. Berger
C. Goy
T. Hryn'Ova
Y. Coadou
E. Monnier
F. Vannucci
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Abstract

A search for highly ionising, penetrating particles with electric charges from |q| = 2e to 6e is performed using the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Proton-proton collision data taken at sqrt(s)=7 TeV during the 2011 running period, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.4 fb^-1, are analysed. No signal candidates are observed, and 95% confidence level cross-section upper limits are interpreted as mass-exclusion lower limits for a simplified Drell--Yan production model. In this model, masses are excluded from 50 GeV up to 430, 480, 490, 470 and 420 GeV for charges 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e and 6e, respectively.

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in2p3-00780046 , version 1 (23-01-2013)

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G. Aad, S. Albrand, M.L. Andrieux, Q. Buat, B. Clement, et al.. Search for long-lived, multi-charged particles in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. Physics Letters B, 2013, 722, pp.305-323. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.036⟩. ⟨in2p3-00780046⟩
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