Abstract:
Abstract: Several models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict neutral particles that decay into final states consisting of collimated jets of light leptons and hadrons (so-called “lepton jets”). These particles can also be long-lived with decay length comparable to, or even larger than, the LHC detectors’ linear dimensions. This paper presents the results of a search for lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energy of √s= 8TeV in a sample of 20.3 fb−1 collected during 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Limits on models predicting Higgs boson decays to neutral long-lived lepton jets are derived as a function of the particle’s proper decay length. © 2014, The Author(s).
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. Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(11).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)088---------- CHICAGO ----------
The ATLAS collaboration.
"Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector"
. Journal of High Energy Physics 2014, no. 11
(2014).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)088---------- MLA ----------
The ATLAS collaboration.
"Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector"
. Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2014, no. 11, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)088---------- VANCOUVER ----------
The ATLAS collaboration. Search for long-lived neutral particles decaying into lepton jets in proton-proton collisions at √s= 8TeV with the ATLAS detector. J. High Energy Phys. 2014;2014(11).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)088