Search for metastable charged particles with the CMS detector

by Joze Zobec (UCL)

Wednesday 8 Feb 2017, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Brussels

Cyclotron

Results from searches for heavy, stable, charged particles are presented using data from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV using 12.9 fb^{−1} data from 2016 LHC operations. The distinctive signatures of large dE/dx and long time-of-flight are used to discriminate signal from background using the CMS detector. The data are consistent with expected background. Upper limits are set on the cross section for production of long-lived gluinos, scalar tops, scalar taus, and lepton-like fermions. In addition, lower mass limits are set for these signals. The mass limit on gluinos is found to be 1850 GeV.

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