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Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector

New massive long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted by multiple beyond the Standard Model theories. This thesis presents a search of such long-lived particles decaying leptonically in the $e \mu v$ final state. The search is performed using $2.31$ $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions collected by...

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Autor principal: Marinangeli, Matthieu
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2738319
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description New massive long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted by multiple beyond the Standard Model theories. This thesis presents a search of such long-lived particles decaying leptonically in the $e \mu v$ final state. The search is performed using $2.31$ $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCB detector at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 $TeV$, seeking for displaced vertices of electrons and muons of opposite charges. LLPs with masses between 7 and 50 $GeV/c^{2}$, and lifetimes between 2 and 50 ps, are explored in this search. Three kinds of LLP production modes are considered: the direct pair production of LLPs from quark interactions, the pair production from a Standard Model like Higgs boson with a mass of 125 $GeV/c^{2}$, and charged current production from an on-shell $W$ boson with an additional lepton. No evidence of these long-lived states has been observed, upper limits at $95 \%$ CL on the production cross-section times branching ratio have been set on the different production modes.
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spelling cern-27383192021-02-25T18:15:19Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/2738319engMarinangeli, MatthieuSearch for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detectorParticle Physics - ExperimentNew massive long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted by multiple beyond the Standard Model theories. This thesis presents a search of such long-lived particles decaying leptonically in the $e \mu v$ final state. The search is performed using $2.31$ $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCB detector at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 $TeV$, seeking for displaced vertices of electrons and muons of opposite charges. LLPs with masses between 7 and 50 $GeV/c^{2}$, and lifetimes between 2 and 50 ps, are explored in this search. Three kinds of LLP production modes are considered: the direct pair production of LLPs from quark interactions, the pair production from a Standard Model like Higgs boson with a mass of 125 $GeV/c^{2}$, and charged current production from an on-shell $W$ boson with an additional lepton. No evidence of these long-lived states has been observed, upper limits at $95 \%$ CL on the production cross-section times branching ratio have been set on the different production modes.CERN-THESIS-2020-130oai:cds.cern.ch:27383192020-10-01T14:45:47Z
spellingShingle Particle Physics - Experiment
Marinangeli, Matthieu
Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title_full Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title_fullStr Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title_full_unstemmed Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title_short Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector
title_sort search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the lhcb detector
topic Particle Physics - Experiment
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/2738319
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