Search for long-lived stopped gluino -hadrons decaying out-of-time with LHC collisions in 2011 and 2012 using the ATLAS detector
-hadrons are composite, massive, long-lived particles predicted in several scenarios of physics beyond the Standard Model, such as split supersymmetry. An updated search is performed for gluino -hadrons which have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to a gluon or pair and a neutralino. Candidate decay events are triggered in the empty bunch crossings of the LHC in order to remove collision backgrounds. Selections based on jet shape and muon-system activity are applied to discriminate events from cosmic ray and beam-halo muon backgrounds. In the absence of an excess, improved limits are set on the gluino mass, for different gluino decays, gluino lifetimes, and neutralino masses. With a neutralino of mass 100 GeV, the analysis excludes GeV ( GeV expected), for a gluino lifetime between 10 and 1000 in the generic -hadron model with equal decays to and .