Search for long-lived particles using out-of-time trackless jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

The CMS collaboration
JHEP 07 (2023) 210, 2023.

Abstract (data abstract)
A search for long-lived particles decaying in the outer regions of the CMS silicon tracker or in the calorimeters is presented. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 $\text{fb}^{-1}$. A novel technique, using trackless and out-of-time jet information combined in a deep neural network discriminator, is employed to identify decays of long-lived particles. The results are interpreted in a simplified model of chargino-neutralino production, where the neutralino is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, is long-lived, and decays to a gravitino and either a Higgs or $Z$ boson.This search is most sensitive to neutralino proper decay lengths of approximately 0.5 m, for which masses up to 1.18 TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. The current search is the best result to date in the mass range from the kinematic limit imposed by the Higgs mass up to 1.8 TeV.

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    Summary of combined statistical and systematic uncertainties, the size of their effect, and whether it applies to the signal or...

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    Figure 1 (left), located on page 2.

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    Feynman diagrams of the effective neutralino pair production in the GMSB simplified model in which the two neutralinos decay into...

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    Figure 1 (center), located on page 2.

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    Feynman diagrams of the effective neutralino pair production in the GMSB simplified model in which the two neutralinos decay into...

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    Feynman diagrams of the effective neutralino pair production in the GMSB simplified model in which the two neutralinos decay into...

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    The distributions of the most impactful input variables to the TD jet tagger for signal (red, lighter) and collision background...

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    The distributions of the most impactful input variables to the TD jet tagger for signal (red, lighter) and collision background...

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    The distributions of the most impactful input variables to the TD jet tagger for signal (red, lighter) and collision background...

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    The distributions of the most impactful input variables to the TD jet tagger for signal (red, lighter) and collision background...

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    Figure 2 (lower), located on page 8.

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    The distributions of the most impactful input variables to the TD jet tagger for signal (red, lighter) and collision background...

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    TD jet tagger score distributions (left) for signal (red, lighter) and collision background (blue, darker). Identification probability for the signal...

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    Figure 3 (right), located on page 9.

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    TD jet tagger score distributions (left) for signal (red, lighter) and collision background (blue, darker). Identification probability for the signal...

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    The TD jet tagger score distributions for simulation (shaded histogram) and data (black markers) when using electrons from $W\to e\nu_e$...

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    The TD jet tagger misidentification probability measured using the nominal $W$+jets MR is shown along with the systematic uncertainty, quantifying...

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    The TD jet tagger misidentification probability measured using the nominal $W$+jets MR is shown along with the systematic uncertainty, quantifying...

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    Distribution of the number of TD tagged jets for the $m_{\chi} = 400$ GeVsimulated signal samples with $c\tau_{\chi} = 0.5$...

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on $\sigma_{\chi\chi}$ as functions of $m_\chi$ in a scenario with $\mathcal{B}(\chi\to HG) =...

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on $\sigma_{\chi\chi}$ as functions of $m_\chi$ in a scenario with $\mathcal{B}(\chi\to HG) =...

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on $\sigma_{\chi\chi}$ as functions of $c\tau_{\chi}$ in a scenario with $\mathcal{B}(\chi\to H\tilde{G}) =...

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    Expected and observed 95% CL upper limits on $\sigma_{\chi\chi}$ as functions of $c\tau_{\chi}$ in a scenario with $\mathcal{B}(\chi\to H\tilde{G}) =...

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    The observed 95% CL upper limit on $\sigma_{\chi\chi}$ as a function of $m_{\chi}$ and $c\tau_{\chi}$ in a scenario with $\mathcal{B}(\chi\to...

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