TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for long-lived particles using out-of-time trackless jets in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
AU - The CMS collaboration [email protected]
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Andrejkovic, J. W.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Chatterjee, S.
AU - Damanakis, K.
AU - Dragicevic, M.
AU - Escalante Del Valle, A.
AU - Hussain, P. S.
AU - Jeitler, M.
AU - Krammer, N.
AU - Lechner, L.
AU - Liko, D.
AU - Mikulec, I.
AU - Paulitsch, P.
AU - Schieck, J.
AU - Schöfbeck, R.
AU - Schwarz, D.
AU - Sonawane, M.
AU - Templ, S.
AU - Waltenberger, W.
AU - Wulz, C. E.
AU - Darwish, M. R.
AU - Janssen, T.
AU - Kello, T.
AU - Rejeb Sfar, H.
AU - Van Mechelen, P.
AU - Bols, E. S.
AU - D’Hondt, J.
AU - De Moor, A.
AU - Delcourt, M.
AU - El Faham, H.
AU - Lowette, S.
AU - Morton, A.
AU - Müller, D.
AU - Sahasransu, A. R.
AU - Tavernier, S.
AU - Van Doninck, W.
AU - Van Putte, S.
AU - Vannerom, D.
AU - Clerbaux, B.
AU - De Lentdecker, G.
AU - Favart, L.
AU - Hohov, D.
AU - Jaramillo, J.
AU - Lee, K.
AU - Mahdavikhorrami, M.
AU - Makarenko, I.
AU - Malara, A.
AU - Paredes, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - A search for long-lived particles decaying in the outer regions of the CMS silicon tracker or in the calorimeters is presented. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. A novel technique, using nearly trackless and out-of-time jet information combined in a deep neural network discriminator, is employed to identify decays of long-lived particles. The results are interpreted in a simplified model of chargino-neutralino production, where the neutralino is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, is long-lived, and decays to a gravitino and either a Higgs or Z boson. This search is most sensitive to neutralino proper decay lengths of approximately 0.5 m, for which masses up to 1.18 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. The current search is the best result to date in the mass range from the kinematic limit imposed by the Higgs boson mass up to 1.8 TeV.
AB - A search for long-lived particles decaying in the outer regions of the CMS silicon tracker or in the calorimeters is presented. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb−1. A novel technique, using nearly trackless and out-of-time jet information combined in a deep neural network discriminator, is employed to identify decays of long-lived particles. The results are interpreted in a simplified model of chargino-neutralino production, where the neutralino is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, is long-lived, and decays to a gravitino and either a Higgs or Z boson. This search is most sensitive to neutralino proper decay lengths of approximately 0.5 m, for which masses up to 1.18 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. The current search is the best result to date in the mass range from the kinematic limit imposed by the Higgs boson mass up to 1.8 TeV.
KW - Beyond Standard Model
KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85182831863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)210
DO - 10.1007/JHEP07(2023)210
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85182831863
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2023
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 7
M1 - 210
ER -