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Georges Aad, Leszek Adamczyk, Jahred Adelman, Tim Adye, Tatjana Agatonovic-Jovin, Faig Ahmadov, Giulio Aielli, Gian Luigi Alberghi, M. J. Alconada Verzini, Calin Alexa, Muhammad Alhroob, Gianluca Alimonti, Alejandro Alonso, Francisco Alonso, Cristian (...)
Georges Aad, Leszek Adamczyk, Jahred Adelman, Tim Adye, Tatjana Agatonovic-Jovin, Faig Ahmadov, Giulio Aielli, Gian Luigi Alberghi, M. J. Alconada Verzini, Calin Alexa, Muhammad Alhroob, Gianluca Alimonti, Alejandro Alonso, Francisco Alonso, Cristiano Alpigiani, António Amorim, Simone Amoroso, Christoph Falk Anders, G. Anders, Aaron Angerami, Alexey Anisenkov, Massimo Antonelli, F. Anulli, Miguel Arratia, Giacomo Artoni, Lily Asquith, Robert Astalos, Giuseppe Avolio, Georges Azuelos, Henri Bachacou, Konstantinos Bachas, Malte Backhaus, Paolo Bagiacchi, John Baines, Petr Balek, Liron Barak, Fernando Barreiro, Ahmed Bassalat, Matteo Bauce, Tristan Beau, Hans Peter Beck, Vadim Bednyakov, Michael Begel, Gideon Bella, Alain Bellerive, Driss Benchekroun, Frank Berghaus, Juerg Beringer, Peter Berta, David Bertsche, O. Bessidskaia Bylund, Nathalie Besson, Christopher Betancourt, Riccardo-Maria Bianchi, Marcello Bindi, Sebastien Binet, V. Boldea, Marcella Bona, Guennadi Borissov, Jonathan Bortfeldt, Martine Bosman, Djamel Eddine Boumediene, Oleg Brandt, Lydia Brenner, Dave Britton, Frederic Brochu, Elizabeth Brost, Trygve Buanes, Felix Buehrer, Magnar Kopangen Bugge, Sergey Burdin, Stephen Burke, Craig Buttar, Jonathan Butterworth, Paolo Calafiura, Alessandro Calandri, Stefano Camarda, Paolo Camarri, Lea Caminada, Angel Campoverde, M. Cano Bret, Irinel Caprini, Mihai Caprini, Marcella Capua, Edson Carquin, João Carvalho, Mirkoantonio Casolino, E. Castaneda-Miranda, Julien Caudron, Alessandro Cerri, Serkant Ali Cetin, Magda Anna Chelstowska, Hok Chuen Cheng, R. Cherkaoui El Moursli, Laurent Chevalier, Vitaliano Chiarella, Gabriele Chiodini, M. L. Chu, Janusz Chwastowski, Diane Cinca, Vladimir Cindro, Yann Coadou, Marina Cobal, Andrea Coccaro, Elias Coniavitis, Francois Corriveau, Davide Costanzo, Giovanna Cottin, Kyle Cranmer, Wayne Allen Cribbs, Markus Cristinziani, Maria Curatolo, Patrick Czodrowski, Saverio D'Auria, Wladyslaw Dabrowski, Mogens Dam, Matthias Danninger, Valerio Dao, Giovanni Darbo, Will Davey, Tomas Davidek, Kaushik De, J. Del Peso, Frederic Deliot, Lidia Dell'Asta, David DeMarco, Dominik Derendarz, Paul Dervan, Pier-Olivier Deviveiros, R. Di Nardo, Cristinel Diaconu, Flavia De Almeida Dias, Janet Dietrich, Aleksandra Dimitrievska, Fridolin Dittus, Tamar Djobava, Caterina Doglioni, Marisilvia Donadelli, Alessandra Doria, Dominik Duda, L. Duguid, Archil Durglishvili, Mateusz Dyndal, W. Ehrenfeld, Mattias Ellert, Frank Ellinghaus, Alison Elliot, Nicolas Ellis, Markus Elsing, Oliver Chris Endner, Johannes Erdmann, Antonio Ereditato, S. Errede, Marc Escalier, Laura Fabbri, Speranza Falciano, Jana Faltova, Amir Farbin, Trisha Farooque, Sinead Farrington, P. Farthouat, Farida Fassi, Lorenzo Feligioni, C. F. Feng, Arnaud Ferrari, Didier Ferrere, Frank Filthaut, Julia Fischer, Andrea Formica, Harald Fox, Paolo Francavilla, Matteo Franchini, David Freeborn, Bruno Galhardo, Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Lucie Gauthier, Benedetto Giacobbe, Stefano Giagu, Paola Giannetti, Stephen Gibson, F. M. Giorgi, Stamatios Gkaitatzis, Claudia Glasman, Julian Glatzer, Tobias Golling, Laura Gonella, Luc Goossens, Eirik Gramstad, Sergio Grancagnolo, Heather Gray, Kristian Gregersen, Sebastian Grinstein, Alexander Grohsjean, Giulio Cornelio Grossi, Jaroslav Guenther, Francesco Guescini, Christian Gutschow, Claire Gwenlan, Carl Gwilliam, Garabed Halladjian, Petr Hamal, L. Han, Kazunori Hanagaki, Maike Christina Hansen, Makoto Hasegawa, Samira Hassani, Sigve Haug, Reiner Hauser, Chris Hays, Tobias Heck, Louise Heelan, Jiri Hejbal, Ewan Hill, Stephen Hillier, E. Hines, Mark Hodgkinson, Walter Hopkins, Yasuyuki Horii, Miroslav Hrabovsky, Julius Hrivnac, Tetiana Hryn'ova, Aliaksei Hrynevich, Zdenek Hubacek, Fabrice Hubaut, Tobias Alexander Hülsing, Giuseppe Iacobucci, Dimitrios Iliadis, T. Ince, Valerio Ippolito, R. Ishmukhametov, Cigdem Issever, Roberto Iuppa, Joseph Izen, Paul Jackson, Sune Jakobsen, Tomas Jakoubek, Roland Jansky, Jens Janssen, Jiangyong Jia, Stephen Jiggins, Osamu Jinnouchi, P. Johansson, Kerstin Jon-And, Xiangyang Ju, Anna Kaczmarska, M. Kaneda, Deepak Kar, Nikolaos Karastathis, Nikolaos Karastathis, Sergey Karpov, Zoya Karpova, Alex Kastanas, Kiyotomo Kawagoe, Vassili Kazanin, Teng Jian Khoo, Evgeniy Khramov, S. B. King, Julie Kirk, Andrey Kiryunin, Florian Kiss, Pawel Klimek, Emmerich Kneringer, Andrea Knue, Peter Kodys, Thomas Koffas, Hermann Kolanoski, Nikolaos Konstantinidis, Krzysztof Korcyl, Vadim Kostyukhin, Christine Kourkoumelis, Vasiliki Kouskoura, Dimitriy Krasnopevtsev, Jan Kretzschmar, Mark Kruse, Hilal Kucuk, Sinan Kuday, Andreas Kugel, Rie Kurumida, Masahiro Kuze, Carlos Lacasta, Remi Lafaye, Eric Lancon, Murrough Landon, Francesco Lanni, C. Lapoire, Mario Lassnig, Paul Laycock, Lawrence Lee, Michel Lefebvre, Antonios Leisos, Rupert Leitner, Bruno Lenzi, Christos Leonidopoulos, Claude Leroy, Mikhail Levchenko, Liang Li, H. Liao, Ki Lie, C. Limbach, Anna Lipniacka, Mykhailo Lisovyi, Alison Lister, Alan Litke, J. B. Liu, Miao Liu, Michele Livan, Annick Lleres, Ewelina Lobodzinska, Peter Loch, Ask Emil Loevschall-Jensen, Kristin Lohwasser, Milos Lokajicek, I. Lopez Paz, Jeanette Lorenz, Philipp Jonathan Lösel, Arnaud Lucotte, David Lynn, Roman Lysak, Romain Madar, Steffen Maeland, Artem Maevskiy, Stephanie Majewski, Yasuhiro Makida, Nikola Makovec, Pa. Malecki, Victor Maleev, Fairouz Malek, Judita Mamuzic, Giada Mancini, Rodger Mantifel, Livio Mapelli, Luis March, Fernando Marroquim, F. Marzano, Antoine Marzin, Paolo Mastrandrea, Tatsuya Masubuchi, G. Mc Goldrick, Robert McPherson, Andrew Mehta, Bernhard Meirose, B. R. Mellado Garcia, Federico Meloni, Alberto Mengarelli, Evelin Meoni, Philippe Mermod, Liza Mijović, David Miller, David Milstead, Allen Mincer, Vasiliki A Mitsou, Soumya Mohapatra, Klaus Mönig, Caterina Monini, James Monk, Emmanuel Monnier, Fernando Monticelli, Simone Monzani, Roger Moore, Nicolas Morange, P. Morettini, M. Morii, Ljiljana Morvaj, James Mueller, Miroslav Myska, Yasushi Nagasaka, Martin Nagel, R. F. Naranjo Garcia, Andrea Negri, Matteo Negrini, Stanislav Nemecek, Jason Nielsen, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Takuya Nobe, Ioannis Nomidis, Sebastian Nowak, Mitsuaki Nozaki, Francesco Nuti, Val O'Shea, Theresa Obermann, J. Ocariz, Susumu Oda, Christian Ohm, Hideyuki Oide, Andrzej Olszewski, Jolanta Olszowska, Peter Onyisi, Nicola Orlando, Mohamed Ouchrif, E. A. Ouellette, Farid Ould-Saada, Martina Pagáčová, Sandro Palestini, Marek Palka, Alexander Paramonov, Rute Pedro, Sergey Peleganchuk, Laura Perini, Krisztian Peters, Troels Petersen, Fabrizio Petrucci, Elisabetta Pianori, Andrew Pilkington, J. Pina, Sylvestre Pires, Vojtech Pleskot, Antonio Policicchio, C. J. Potter, C. T. Potter, Joaquin Poveda, Pascal Pralavorio, Darren Price, Sebastien Prince, Kirill Prokofiev, Fedor Prokoshin, E. Pueschel, Michaela Queitsch-Maitland, Francesco Ragusa, George Redlinger, Kendall Reeves, A. Renaud, M. Rescigno, Oliver Ricken, Melissa Ridel, Patrick Rieck, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Branislav Ristic, E. Ritsch, Imma Riu, Eram Rizvi, Aidan Robson, Anatoli Romaniouk, Lydia Roos, Eduardo Ros, Stefano Rosati, Kilian Rosbach, Leonardo Paolo Rossi, Marina Rotaru, Itamar Roth, David Rousseau, Yoram Rozen, Zuzana Rurikova, Heather Russell, John Rutherfoord, Matthias Saimpert, M. Saleem, P. H. Sales De Bruin, A. A. Salnikov, Antonio Salvucci, Carlos Sandoval, D. P. C. Sankey, Mario Sannino, Helena Santos, Osamu Sasaki, Koji Sato, Emmanuel Sauvan, Craig Sawyer, Lee Sawyer, Carla Sbarra, Jana Schaarschmidt, Stefan Schmitt, Laurent Schoeffel, Elisabeth Schopf, D. Schouten, Jaroslava Schovancova, Steven Schramm, Martin Johannes Schultens, Ariel Schwartzman, Ph. Schwemling, Jacob Searcy, Givi Sekhniaidze, Karishma Sekhon, Leonid Serkin, Marco Sessa, Federico Sforza, Elizaveta Shabalina, Marjorie Shapiro, Liaoshan Shi, Liaoshan Shi, Lj Simic, Eduard Simioni, Giovanni Siragusa, T. B. Sjursen, Magdalena Slawinska, Yury Smirnov, Oxana Smirnova, Karel Smolek, Andrei Snesarev, Scott Snyder, Victor Solovyev, Philip Sommer, Hong Ye Song, N. Soni, Andre Sopczak, Calliope Louisa Sotiropoulou, Paul Soueid, Andrey Soukharev, Stefania Spagnolo, Francesco Spanò, Rainer Stamen, Pavel Staroba, Pavel Starovoitov, Rafal Staszewski, P. Stavina, S. Stern, Jan Andre Stillings, Philipp Stolte, Arno Straessner, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Jonas Strandberg, Raimund Ströhmer, Ryszard Stroynowski, B. Stugu, Nicholas Adam Styles, R. Subramaniam, A. Succurro, Vladimir Sulin, Toshi Sumida, Michal Svatos, S. Swedish, Ivan Sykora, Mossadek Talby, Reisaburo Tanaka, Giuseppe Francesco Tartarelli, Enrico Tassi, Wendy Taylor, Koji Terashi, Juan Terron, Stefano Terzo, P. D. Thompson, E. Thomson, Vladimir Tikhomirov, Sylvain Tisserant, Katsuo Tokushuku, Makoto Tomoto, Jozsef Toth, Sophie Trincaz-Duvoid, Benjamin Trocmé, Clara Troncon, Maciej Trzebinski, Adam Trzupek, Soshi Tsuno, Valentina Tudorache, Daniel Turecek, Ruggero Turra, Andrii Tykhonov, Guillaume Unal, Francesca Ungaro, Christopher Unverdorben, Phillip Urquijo, Alberto Valero, J. A. Valls Ferrer, Marco Vanadia, Riccardo Vari, Kevin Varvell, Filipe Veloso, Stefano Veneziano, Andrea Ventura, Valerio Vercesi, Michel Vetterli, Trevor Vickey, Mauro Villa, Manuella Vincter, Iacopo Vivarelli, D. Vladoiu, Michal Vlasak, Marcel Vos, Nenad Vranjes, Ilija Vukotic, James Walder, Wolfgang Walkowiak, J. Wang, Kuhan Wang, Chaowaroj Wanotayaroj, Andreas Warburton, C. Wasicki, Jens Weingarten, Christian Weiser, Torre Wenaus, Thorsten Wengler, Kathleen Whalen, Martin White, Werner Wiedenmann, Monika Wielers, Craig Wiglesworth, Frank Winklmeier, Benedict Tobias Winter, Helmut Wolters, Barbara Wosiek, Krzysztof Wozniak, Mengqing Wu, Xin Wu, Stefania Xella, Bruce Yabsley, Sahal Yacoob, Ryota Yakabe, Yohei Yamaguchi, Yuji Yamazaki, Elena Yatsenko, Eda Yildirim, Kohei Yorita, Remi Zaidan, Stefano Zambito, Daniele Zanzi, Dengfeng Zhang, Zhiqing Zhang, Alexey Zhemchugov, Bing Zhou, Ning Zhou
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Abstract:
Many extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of heavy particles with long lifetimes. This article presents the results of a search for events containing at least one long-lived particle that decays at a significant distance from its production point into two leptons or into five or more charged particles. This analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) collected in 2012 by the ATLAS detector operating at the Large Hadron Collider. No events are (...)
Many extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of heavy particles with long lifetimes. This article presents the results of a search for events containing at least one long-lived particle that decays at a significant distance from its production point into two leptons or into five or more charged particles. This analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1) collected in 2012 by the ATLAS detector operating at the Large Hadron Collider. No events are observed in any of the signal regions, and limits are set on model parameters within supersymmetric scenarios involving R-parity violation, split supersymmetry, and gauge mediation. In some of the search channels, the trigger and search strategy are based only on the decay products of individual long-lived particles, irrespective of the rest of the event. In these cases, the provided limits can easily be reinterpreted in different scenarios.
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