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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for displaced muonic lepton jets from light Higgs boson decay in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Atlas CollaborationSusana Cabrera UrbánMaría Victoria Castillo GiménezMaría José Costa MezquitaFarida FassiAntonio Ferrer SoriaLuca FioriniJuan A. Fuster VerdúCarmen García GarcíaJosé Enrique García NavarroSantiago González De La HozYesenia Hernández JiménezEmilio Higón RodríguezAdrián Irles QuilesMohammed KaciCarlos Lacasta LlácerVicente Lacuesta MiquelSalvador Martí GarcíaMercedes Miñano MoyaVasiliki MitsouRegina Moles VallsMaría Moreno LlácerElena Oliver GarcíaSebastián Pedraza LópezMaría Teresa Pérez García-estañE. Romero AdamEduardo Ros MartínezJosé Salt CairolsVictoria Sánchez MartínezCarlos Antonio Solans SánchezU. SoldevilaJavier Sánchez MartínezEmma Torró PastorAlberto Valero BiotE. Valladolid GallegoJuan Antonio Valls FerrerMiguel Villaplana PérezMarcel Vos

subject

High Energy Physics::ExperimentFísica nuclear

description

A search is performed for collimated muon pairs displaced from the primary vertex produced in the decay of long-lived neutral particles in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy, with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. In a 1.9 fb(-1) event sample collected during 2011, the observed data are consistent with the Standard Model background expectations. Limits on the product of the production cross section and the branching ratio of a Higgs boson decaying to hidden-sector neutral long-lived particles are derived as a function of the particles' mean lifetime.

10.1016/j.physletb.2013.02.058http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.02.058