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Search for long-lived stopped gluino RR-hadrons decaying out-of-time with LHC collisions in 2011 and 2012 using the ATLAS detector

RR-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 RR-hadrons which have come to rest within the ATLAS calorimeter, and decay at some later time to a gluon or qqˉq\bar{q} pair and a neutralino. Candidate decay events are triggered in the empty bunch crossings of the LHC in order to remove pppp 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 mg~<857m_{\tilde{g}} < 857 GeV (763763 GeV expected), for a gluino lifetime between 10 μs\mu s and 1000 ss in the generic RR-hadron model with equal decays to qqˉχ~0q\bar{q}\tilde{\chi}^0 and gχ~0g\tilde{\chi}^0.

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