Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2007-05-02
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:131801,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.131801
Long-lived, heavy particles are predicted in a number of models beyond the standard model of particle physics. We present the first direct search for such particles' decays, occurring up to 100 hours after their production and not synchronized with an accelerator bunch crossing. We apply the analysis to the gluino (~g), predicted in split supersymmetry, which after hadronization can become charged and lose enough momentum through ionization to come to rest in dense particle detectors. Approximately 410 pb^-1 of p-pbar collisions at 1.96 TeV collected with the D0 detector during Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron collider are analyzed in search of such ``stopped gluinos'' decaying into a gluon and a neutralino (~X_0), reconstructed as a jet and missing energy. No excess is observed above background, and limits are placed on the (gluino cross section) x (probability to stop) x BR(~g -> g ~X_0) as a function of the gluino and ~X_0 masses, for gluino lifetimes from 30 $\mu$s -- 100 hours.
"D0 Collaboration
Abazov V.
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