Search for long-lived, heavy particles in final states with a muon and a multi-track displaced vertex in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Many extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of new heavy particles with long lifetimes. Results are presented of a search for such particles, which decay at a significant distance from their production point, using a final state containing charged hadrons and an associated muon. This analysis uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at ~TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of \lumi collected in 2012 by the ATLAS detector operating at the Large Hadron Collider. Results are interpreted in the context of -Parity violating supersymmetric scenarios. No events in the signal region are observed, with an expected background of events, and 95\% confidence level limits are set on squark pair production processes where the squark decays into the lightest supersymmetric particle (the neutralino) followed by the decay of the neutralino into a muon and quarks, and for neutralino lifetime between 3~ps and 3~ns ( between 1~mm and 1~m). To allow these limits to be used in a variety of models, they are presented for a range of squark and neutralino masses.