@article{49bd9f6d4e4644f5bd1ad29bab53d65d,
title = "Search for long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at s =13 TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS muon spectrometer",
abstract = "A search for the decay of neutral, weakly interacting, long-lived particles using data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC is presented. The analysis in this paper uses 36.1 fb-1 of proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV recorded in 2015-2016. The search employs techniques for reconstructing vertices of long-lived particles decaying into jets in the muon spectrometer exploiting a two-vertex strategy and a novel technique that requires only one vertex in association with additional activity in the detector that improves the sensitivity for longer lifetimes. The observed numbers of events are consistent with the expected background and limits for several benchmark signals are determined.",
author = "{(ATLAS Collaboration)} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and Abhayasinghe, {D. K.} and Abidi, {S. H.} and Abouzeid, {O. S.} and Abraham, {N. L.} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, {B. S.} and S. Adachi and L. Adamczyk and J. Adelman and M. Adersberger and A. Adiguzel and T. Adye and Affolder, {A. A.} and Y. Afik and C. Agheorghiesei and Aguilar-Saavedra, {J. A.} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and S. Akatsuka and {\AA}kesson, {T. P.A.} and E. Akilli and Akimov, {A. V.} and Alberghi, {G. L.} and J. Albert and P. Albicocco and {Alconada Verzini}, {M. J.} and S. Alderweireldt and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, {I. N.} and C. Alexa and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and B. Ali and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and Alkire, {S. P.} and C. Allaire and Allbrooke, {B. M.M.} and Allen, {B. W.} and E. Cheu and Johns, {K. A.} and Rutherfoord, {J. P.} and Varnes, {E. W.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Azerbaijan; State Science and Technology Committee, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and Danish Natural Science Research Council, Denmark; Institut national de physique nucl{\'e}aire et de physique des particules, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l{\textquoteright}Univers, Direction des Sciences de la Mati{\`e}re, Commissariat {\`a} l{\textquoteright}{\'E}nergie Atomique, France; Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; Ministry of National Education, Institute of Atomic Physics, Romania; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research; Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Serbia; Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZ{\v S}, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; Swedish Research Council and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; Secretariat for Education and Research, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, and Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d{\textquoteright} Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSF-NSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref. . Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 CERN.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.99.052005",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "99",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "5",
}