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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2018

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Search For Long-Lived, Massive Particles Decaying Into Dimuon Vertices In Pp Collisions At 13 Tev With The Atlas Detector At The Lhc, Nathan Bernard Mar 2018

Search For Long-Lived, Massive Particles Decaying Into Dimuon Vertices In Pp Collisions At 13 Tev With The Atlas Detector At The Lhc, Nathan Bernard

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A search for long-lived, massive particles decaying into dimuon pairs, in 32.9 fb-1 of data analyzed from the ATLAS detector is presented. Two signal models are considered: GGM SUSY, where the long lived particle mass is between 300-1000 GeV, and the dark photon model, where the ZD mass is between 20-60 GeV. An excess over the predicted background is observed in the GGM channel, however the angular/kinematic distributions of the excess vertices are consistent with a detec- tor/conditions related issue. A modified selection is used for the GGM channel which increases the signal sensitivity. 95% confidence level (CL) …