Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton-proton collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector


Aad G., Abajyan T., Abbott B., Abdallah J., Khalek S. A., Abdelalim A. A., ...More

PHYSICS LETTERS B, vol.721, pp.32-50, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 721
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.02.058
  • Journal Name: PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.32-50
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

A search is performed for collimated muon pairs displaced from the primary vertex produced in the decay of long-lived neutral particles in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy, with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In a 1.9 fb(-1) event sample collected during 2011, the observed data are consistent with the Standard Model background expectations. Limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching ratio of a Higgs boson decaying to hidden-sector neutral long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particles' mean lifetime. (C) 2013 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.