A search is performed for heavy metastable particles that decay into jet pairs with a macroscopic lifetime (cτ∼1 cm) in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using data from the CDF II detector at Fermilab corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1. To estimate the standard model background, a data-driven approach is used. Probability-density functions are constructed to model secondary vertices from known processes. No statistically significant excess is observed above the background. Limits on the production cross section in a hidden valley benchmark phenomenology are set for various Higgs boson masses as well as metastable particle masses and lifetimes.
Search for heavy metastable particles decaying to jet pairs in ppˉ collisions at s√=1.96 TeV.
PAGLIARONE, Carmine Elvezio;
2012-01-01
Abstract
A search is performed for heavy metastable particles that decay into jet pairs with a macroscopic lifetime (cτ∼1 cm) in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using data from the CDF II detector at Fermilab corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.2 fb-1. To estimate the standard model background, a data-driven approach is used. Probability-density functions are constructed to model secondary vertices from known processes. No statistically significant excess is observed above the background. Limits on the production cross section in a hidden valley benchmark phenomenology are set for various Higgs boson masses as well as metastable particle masses and lifetimes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
