Phys. Rev. D
78,
032015
(2008)
[29 pages]
Search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay to photons at CDF II using photon timing
T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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T. Aaltonen24, J. Adelman14, T. Akimoto56, M. G. Albrow18, B. Álvarez González12, S. Amerio44,q, D. Amidei35, A. Anastassov39, A. Annovi20, J. Antos15, G. Apollinari18, A. Apresyan49, T. Arisawa58, A. Artikov16, W. Ashmanskas18, A. Attal4, A. Aurisano54, F. Azfar43, P. Azzurri47,o, W. Badgett18, A. Barbaro-Galtieri29, V. E. Barnes49, B. A. Barnett26, V. Bartsch31, G. Bauer33, P.-H. Beauchemin34, F. Bedeschi47, P. Bednar15, D. Beecher31, S. Behari26, G. Bellettini47,q, J. Bellinger60, D. Benjamin17, A. Beretvas18, J. Beringer29, A. Bhatti51, M. Binkley18, D. Bisello44,q, I. Bizjak31, R. E. Blair2, C. Blocker7, B. Blumenfeld26, A. Bocci17, A. Bodek50, V. Boisvert50, G. Bolla49, D. Bortoletto49, J. Boudreau48, A. Boveia11, B. Brau11, A. Bridgeman25, L. Brigliadori44, C. Bromberg36, E. Brubaker14, J. Budagov16, H. S. Budd50, S. Budd25, K. Burkett18, G. Busetto44,q, P. Bussey22,t, A. Buzatu34, K. L. Byrum2, S. Cabrera17,l, C. Calancha32, M. Campanelli36, M. Campbell35, F. Canelli18, A. 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Vila12, R. Vilar12, T. Vine31, M. Vogel38, I. Volobouev29,k, G. Volpi47,m, F. Würthwein10, P. Wagner54, R. G. Wagner2, R. L. Wagner18, J. Wagner-Kuhr27, W. Wagner27, T. Wakisaka42, R. Wallny9, S. M. Wang1, A. Warburton34, D. Waters31, M. Weinberger54, W. C. Wester, III18, B. Whitehouse57, D. Whiteson46,‡‡, A. B. Wicklund2, E. Wicklund18, G. Williams34, H. H. Williams46, P. Wilson18, B. L. Winer40, P. Wittich18,b, S. Wolbers18, C. Wolfe14, T. Wright35, X. Wu21, S. M. Wynne30, A. Yagil10, K. Yamamoto42, J. Yamaoka53, U. K. Yang14,g, Y. C. Yang28, W. M. Yao29, G. P. Yeh18, J. Yoh18, K. Yorita14, T. Yoshida42, G. B. Yu50, I. Yu28, S. S. Yu18, J. C. Yun18, L. Zanello52,r, A. Zanetti55, I. Zaw23, X. Zhang25, Y. Zheng9,**, and S. Zucchelli6,p (CDF Collaboration)
1Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China 2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439 3University of Athens, 157 71 Athens, Greece 4Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain 5Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798 6Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Bologna, University of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy 7Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 8University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616 9University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024 10University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 11University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106 12Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain 13Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 14Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 15Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; Institute of Experimental Physics, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia 16Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia 17Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 18Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510 19University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 20Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati, Italy 21University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland 22Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom 23Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 24Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 25University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 26The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218 27Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 28Center for High Energy Physics: Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea; Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea; Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea 29Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 30University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom 31University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom 32Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain 33Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 34Institute of Particle Physics: McGill University, Montréal, Canada H3A 2T8; and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7 35University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 36Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 37Institution for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow 117259, Russia 38University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 39Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 40The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 41Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 42Osaka City University, Osaka 588, Japan 43University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom 44Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, University of Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy 45LPNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/IN2P3-CNRS, UMR7585, Paris, F-75252 France 46University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 47Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Pisa, University of Pisa, University of Siena and Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy 48University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 49Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 50University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627 51The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021 52Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 1, Sapienza Università di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy 53Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855 54Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 55Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Trieste/ Udine, University of Trieste/Udine, Italy 56University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 57Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155 58Waseda University, Tokyo 169, Japan 59Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201 60University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 61Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Received 8 April 2008; published 22 August 2008
We present the results of the first hadron collider search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay via χ˜10→γG˜ in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models. Using an integrated luminosity of 570±34 pb-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, we select γ+jet+missing transverse energy candidate events based on the arrival time of a high-energy photon at the electromagnetic calorimeter as measured with a timing system that was recently installed on the CDF II detector. We find 2 events, consistent with the background estimate of 1.3±0.7 events. While our search strategy does not rely on model-specific dynamics, we set cross section limits and place the world-best 95% C.L. lower limit on the χ˜10 mass of 101 GeV/c2 at τχ˜10=5 ns.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.032015
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.032015
PACS:
13.85.Rm, 12.60.Jv, 13.85.Qk, 14.80.Ly
*Deceased. †Deceased. ‡With visitors from §Universiteit Antwerpen, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium. **Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China. ††University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom. ‡‡University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. aUniversity of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. bCornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. cUniversity of Cyprus, Nicosia CY-1678, Cyprus. dUniversity College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland. eUniversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom. fUniversidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., Mexico. gUniversity of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England. hNagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan. iUniversity de Oviedo, E-33007 Oviedo, Spain. jQueen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, England. kTexas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA. lIFIC (CSIC-Universitat de Valencia), 46071 Valencia, Spain. mUniversity of Pisa, Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy. nUniversity of Siena, Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy. oScuola Normale, Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy. pUniversity of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy. qUniversity of Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy. rSapienza Università di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy. sUniversity of Trieste/Udine, Italy. tRoyal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Executive Support Research Fellow.
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