Search for neutral, long-lived particles decaying into two muons in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV

V M Abazov; B Abbott; M Abolins; B S Acharya; M Adams; T Adams; M Agelou; S H Ahn; M Ahsan; G D Alexeev; G Alkhazov; A Alton; G Alverson; G A Alves; M Anastasoaie; T Andeen; S Anderson; B Andrieu; M S Anzelc; Y Arnoud; M Arov; A Askew; B Asman; A C S Assis Jesus; O Atramentov; C Autermann; C Avila; C Ay; F Badaud; A Baden; L Bagby; B Baldin; D V Bandurin; P Banerjee; S Banerjee; E Barberis; P Bargassa; P Baringer; C Barnes; J Barreto; J F Bartlett; U Bassler; D Bauer; A Bean; M Begalli; M Begel; C Belanger-Champagne; L Bellantoni; A Bellavance; J A Benitez; S B Beri; G Bernardi; R Bernhard; L Berntzon; I Bertram; M Besançon; R Beuselinck; V A Bezzubov; P C Bhat; V Bhatnagar; M Binder; C Biscarat; K M Black; I Blackler; G Blazey; F Blekman; S Blessing; D Bloch; K Bloom; U Blumenschein; A Boehnlein; O Boeriu; T A Bolton; G Borissov; K Bos; T Bose; A Brandt; R Brock; G Brooijmans; A Bross; D Brown; N J Buchanan; D Buchholz; M Buehler; V Buescher; S Burdin; S Burke; T H Burnett; E Busato; C P Buszello; J M Butler; P Calfayan; S Calvet; J Cammin; S Caron; W Carvalho; B C K Casey; N M Cason; H Castilla-Valdez; D Chakraborty; K M Chan; A Chandra; F Charles; E Cheu; F Chevallier; D K Cho; S Choi; B Choudhary; L Christofek; D Claes; B Clément; C Clément; Y Coadou; M Cooke; W E Cooper; D Coppage; M Corcoran; M-C Cousinou; B Cox; S Crépé-Renaudin; D Cutts; M Cwiok; H da Motta; A Das; M Das; B Davies; G Davies; G A Davis; K De; P de Jong; S J de Jong; E De La Cruz-Burelo; C De Oliveira Martins; J D Degenhardt; F Déliot; M Demarteau; R Demina; P Demine; D Denisov; S P Denisov; S Desai; H T Diehl; M Diesburg; M Doidge; A Dominguez; H Dong; L V Dudko; L Duflot; S R Dugad; D Duggan; A Duperrin; J Dyer; A Dyshkant; M Eads; D Edmunds; T Edwards; J Ellison; J Elmsheuser; V D Elvira; S Eno; P Ermolov; H Evans; A Evdokimov; V N Evdokimov; S N Fatakia; L Feligioni; A V Ferapontov; T Ferbel; F Fiedler; F Filthaut; W Fisher; H E Fisk; I Fleck; M Ford; M Fortner; H Fox; S Fu; S Fuess; T Gadfort; C F Galea; E Gallas; E Galyaev; C Garcia; A Garcia-Bellido; J Gardner; V Gavrilov; A Gay; P Gay; D Gelé; R Gelhaus; C E Gerber; Y Gershtein; D Gillberg; G Ginther; N Gollub; B Gómez; A Goussiou; P D Grannis; H Greenlee; Z D Greenwood; E M Gregores; G Grenier; Ph Gris; J-F Grivaz; S Grünendahl; M W Grünewald; F Guo; J Guo; G Gutierrez; P Gutierrez; A Haas; N J Hadley; P Haefner; S Hagopian; J Haley; I Hall; R E Hall; L Han; K Hanagaki; K Harder; A Harel; R Harrington; J M Hauptman; R Hauser; J Hays; T Hebbeker; D Hedin; J G Hegeman; J M Heinmiller; A P Heinson; U Heintz; C Hensel; K Herner; G Hesketh; M D Hildreth; R Hirosky; J D Hobbs; B Hoeneisen; H Hoeth; M Hohlfeld; S J Hong; R Hooper; P Houben; Y Hu; Z Hubacek; V Hynek; I Iashvili; R Illingworth; A S Ito; S Jabeen; M Jaffré; S Jain; K Jakobs; C Jarvis; A Jenkins; R Jesik; K Johns; C Johnson; M Johnson; A Jonckheere; P Jonsson; A Juste; D Käfer; S Kahn; E Kajfasz; A M Kalinin; J M Kalk; J R Kalk; S Kappler; D Karmanov; J Kasper; P Kasper; I Katsanos; D Kau; R Kaur; R Kehoe; S Kermiche; N Khalatyan; A Khanov; A Kharchilava; Y M Kharzheev; D Khatidze; H Kim; T J Kim; M H Kirby; B Klima; J M Kohli; J-P Konrath; M Kopal; V M Korablev; J Kotcher; B Kothari; A Koubarovsky; A V Kozelov; J Kozminski; D Krop; A Kryemadhi; T Kuhl; A Kumar; S Kunori; A Kupco; T Kurca; J Kvita; S Lammers; G Landsberg; J Lazoflores; A-C Le Bihan; P Lebrun; W M Lee; A Leflat; F Lehner; V Lesne; J Leveque; P Lewis; J Li; Q Z Li; J G R Lima; D Lincoln; J Linnemann; V V Lipaev; R Lipton; Z Liu; L Lobo; A Lobodenko; M Lokajicek; A Lounis; P Love; H J Lubatti; M Lynker; A L Lyon; A K A Maciel; R J Madaras; P Mättig; C Magass; A Magerkurth; A-M Magnan; N Makovec; P K Mal; H B Malbouisson; S Malik; V L Malyshev; H S Mao; Y Maravin; M Martens; R McCarthy; D Meder; A Melnitchouk; A Mendes; L Mendoza; M Merkin; K W Merritt; A Meyer; J Meyer; M Michaut; H Miettinen; T Millet; J Mitrevski; J Molina; N K Mondal; J Monk; R W Moore; T Moulik; G S Muanza; M Mulders; M Mulhearn; L Mundim; Y D Mutaf; E Nagy; M Naimuddin; M Narain; N A Naumann; H A Neal; J P Negret; P Neustroev; C Noeding; A Nomerotski; S F Novaes; T Nunnemann; V O'dell; D C O'neil; G Obrant; V Oguri; N Oliveira; N Oshima; R Otec; G J Otero Y Garzón; M Owen; P Padley; N Parashar; S-J Park; S K Park; J Parsons; R Partridge; N Parua; A Patwa; G Pawloski; P M Perea; E Perez; K Peters; P Pétroff; M Petteni; R Piegaia; J Piper; M-A Pleier; P L M Podesta-Lerma; V M Podstavkov; Y Pogorelov; M-E Pol; A Pompos; B G Pope; A V Popov; C Potter; W L Prado da Silva; H B Prosper; S Protopopescu; J Qian; A Quadt; B Quinn; M S Rangel; K J Rani; K Ranjan; P N Ratoff; P Renkel; S Reucroft; M Rijssenbeek; I Ripp-Baudot; F Rizatdinova; S Robinson; R F Rodrigues; C Royon; P Rubinov; R Ruchti; V I Rud; G Sajot; A Sánchez-Hernández; M P Sanders; A Santoro; G Savage; L Sawyer; T Scanlon; D Schaile; R D Schamberger; Y Scheglov; H Schellman; P Schieferdecker; C Schmitt; C Schwanenberger; A Schwartzman; R Schwienhorst; J Sekaric; S Sengupta; H Severini; E Shabalina; M Shamim; V Shary; A A Shchukin; W D Shephard; R K Shivpuri; D Shpakov; V Siccardi; R A Sidwell; V Simak; V Sirotenko; P Skubic; P Slattery; R P Smith; G R Snow; J Snow; S Snyder; S Söldner-Rembold; X Song; L Sonnenschein; A Sopczak; M Sosebee; K Soustruznik; M Souza; B Spurlock; J Stark; J Steele; V Stolin; A Stone; D A Stoyanova; J Strandberg; S Strandberg; M A Strang; M Strauss; R Ströhmer; D Strom; M Strovink; L Stutte; S Sumowidagdo; A Sznajder; M Talby; P Tamburello; W Taylor; P Telford; J Temple; B Tiller; M Titov; V V Tokmenin; M Tomoto; T Toole; I Torchiani; S Towers; T Trefzger; S Trincaz-Duvoid; D Tsybychev; B Tuchming; C Tully; A S Turcot; P M Tuts; R Unalan; L Uvarov; S Uvarov; S Uzunyan; B Vachon; P J van den Berg; R Van Kooten; W M van Leeuwen; N Varelas; E W Varnes; A Vartapetian; I A Vasilyev; M Vaupel; P Verdier; L S Vertogradov; M Verzocchi; F Villeneuve-Seguier; P Vint; J-R Vlimant; E Von Toerne; M Voutilainen; M Vreeswijk; H D Wahl; L Wang; M H L S Wang; J Warchol; G Watts; M Wayne; M Weber; H Weerts; N Wermes; M Wetstein; A White; D Wicke; G W Wilson; S J Wimpenny; M Wobisch; J Womersley; D R Wood; T R Wyatt; Y Xie; N Xuan; S Yacoob; R Yamada; M Yan; T Yasuda; Y A Yatsunenko; K Yip; H D Yoo; S W Youn; C Yu; J Yu; A Yurkewicz; A Zatserklyaniy; C Zeitnitz; D Zhang; T Zhao; B Zhou; J Zhu; M Zielinski; D Zieminska; A Zieminski; V Zutshi; E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161802

Search for neutral, long-lived particles decaying into two muons in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Oct 20;97(16):161802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161802. Epub 2006 Oct 20.

Authors

V M Abazov¹, B Abbott, M Abolins, B S Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, M Agelou, S H Ahn, M Ahsan, G D Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, G A Alves, M Anastasoaie, T Andeen, S Anderson, B Andrieu, M S Anzelc, Y Arnoud, M Arov, A Askew, B Asman, A C S Assis Jesus, O Atramentov, C Autermann, C Avila, C Ay, F Badaud, A Baden, L Bagby, B Baldin, D V Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, P Bargassa, P Baringer, C Barnes, J Barreto, J F Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, J A Benitez, S B Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, L Berntzon, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, V A Bezzubov, P C Bhat, V Bhatnagar, M Binder, C Biscarat, K M Black, I Blackler, G Blazey, F Blekman, S Blessing, D Bloch, K Bloom, U Blumenschein, A Boehnlein, O Boeriu, T A Bolton, G Borissov, K Bos, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, N J Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, S Burdin, S Burke, T H Burnett, E Busato, C P Buszello, J M Butler, P Calfayan, S Calvet, J Cammin, S Caron, W Carvalho, B C K Casey, N M Cason, H Castilla-Valdez, D Chakraborty, K M Chan, A Chandra, F Charles, E Cheu, F Chevallier, D K Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, D Claes, B Clément, C Clément, Y Coadou, M Cooke, W E Cooper, D Coppage, M Corcoran, M-C Cousinou, B Cox, S Crépé-Renaudin, D Cutts, M Cwiok, H da Motta, A Das, M Das, B Davies, G Davies, G A Davis, K De, P de Jong, S J de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, C De Oliveira Martins, J D Degenhardt, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, P Demine, D Denisov, S P Denisov, S Desai, H T Diehl, M Diesburg, M Doidge, A Dominguez, H Dong, L V Dudko, L Duflot, S R Dugad, D Duggan, A Duperrin, J Dyer, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, T Edwards, J Ellison, J Elmsheuser, V D Elvira, S Eno, P Ermolov, H Evans, A Evdokimov, V N Evdokimov, S N Fatakia, L Feligioni, A V Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, H E Fisk, I Fleck, M Ford, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, C F Galea, E Gallas, E Galyaev, C Garcia, A Garcia-Bellido, J Gardner, V Gavrilov, A Gay, P Gay, D Gelé, R Gelhaus, C E Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, N Gollub, B Gómez, A Goussiou, P D Grannis, H Greenlee, Z D Greenwood, E M Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, S Grünendahl, M W Grünewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, N J Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, R E Hall, L Han, K Hanagaki, K Harder, A Harel, R Harrington, J M Hauptman, R Hauser, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, J G Hegeman, J M Heinmiller, A P Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, M D Hildreth, R Hirosky, J D Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, H Hoeth, M Hohlfeld, S J Hong, R Hooper, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, A S Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, C Jarvis, A Jenkins, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, D Käfer, S Kahn, E Kajfasz, A M Kalinin, J M Kalk, J R Kalk, S Kappler, D Karmanov, J Kasper, P Kasper, I Katsanos, D Kau, R Kaur, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, Y M Kharzheev, D Khatidze, H Kim, T J Kim, M H Kirby, B Klima, J M Kohli, J-P Konrath, M Kopal, V M Korablev, J Kotcher, B Kothari, A Koubarovsky, A V Kozelov, J Kozminski, D Krop, A Kryemadhi, T Kuhl, A Kumar, S Kunori, A Kupco, T Kurca, J Kvita, S Lammers, G Landsberg, J Lazoflores, A-C Le Bihan, P Lebrun, W M Lee, A Leflat, F Lehner, V Lesne, J Leveque, P Lewis, J Li, Q Z Li, J G R Lima, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, V V Lipaev, R Lipton, Z Liu, L Lobo, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, A Lounis, P Love, H J Lubatti, M Lynker, A L Lyon, A K A Maciel, R J Madaras, P Mättig, C Magass, A Magerkurth, A-M Magnan, N Makovec, P K Mal, H B Malbouisson, S Malik, V L Malyshev, H S Mao, Y Maravin, M Martens, R McCarthy, D Meder, A Melnitchouk, A Mendes, L Mendoza, M Merkin, K W Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, M Michaut, H Miettinen, T Millet, J Mitrevski, J Molina, N K Mondal, J Monk, R W Moore, T Moulik, G S Muanza, M Mulders, M Mulhearn, L Mundim, Y D Mutaf, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, N A Naumann, H A Neal, J P Negret, P Neustroev, C Noeding, A Nomerotski, S F Novaes, T Nunnemann, V O'dell, D C O'neil, G Obrant, V Oguri, N Oliveira, N Oshima, R Otec, G J Otero Y Garzón, M Owen, P Padley, N Parashar, S-J Park, S K Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, P M Perea, E Perez, K Peters, P Pétroff, M Petteni, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, P L M Podesta-Lerma, V M Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, A Pompos, B G Pope, A V Popov, C Potter, W L Prado da Silva, H B Prosper, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, M S Rangel, K J Rani, K Ranjan, P N Ratoff, P Renkel, S Reucroft, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, R F Rodrigues, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, V I Rud, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, M P Sanders, A Santoro, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, R D Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, P Schieferdecker, C Schmitt, C Schwanenberger, A Schwartzman, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, S Sengupta, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, A A Shchukin, W D Shephard, R K Shivpuri, D Shpakov, V Siccardi, R A Sidwell, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, R P Smith, G R Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, X Song, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, M Souza, B Spurlock, J Stark, J Steele, V Stolin, A Stone, D A Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, M A Strang, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, M Strovink, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, A Sznajder, M Talby, P Tamburello, W Taylor, P Telford, J Temple, B Tiller, M Titov, V V Tokmenin, M Tomoto, T Toole, I Torchiani, S Towers, T Trefzger, S Trincaz-Duvoid, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, A S Turcot, P M Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, P J van den Berg, R Van Kooten, W M van Leeuwen, N Varelas, E W Varnes, A Vartapetian, I A Vasilyev, M Vaupel, P Verdier, L S Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, F Villeneuve-Seguier, P Vint, J-R Vlimant, E Von Toerne, M Voutilainen, M Vreeswijk, H D Wahl, L Wang, M H L S Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, M Weber, H Weerts, N Wermes, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, G W Wilson, S J Wimpenny, M Wobisch, J Womersley, D R Wood, T R Wyatt, Y Xie, N Xuan, S Yacoob, R Yamada, M Yan, T Yasuda, Y A Yatsunenko, K Yip, H D Yoo, S W Youn, C Yu, J Yu, A Yurkewicz, A Zatserklyaniy, C Zeitnitz, D Zhang, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, A Zieminski, V Zutshi, E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 17155383
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.161802

Abstract

We present a search for a neutral particle, pair produced in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV, which decays into two muons and lives long enough to travel at least 5 cm before decaying. The analysis uses approximately 380 pb(-1) of data recorded with the D0 detector. The background is estimated to be about one event. No candidates are observed, and limits are set on the pair-production cross section times branching fraction into dimuons + X for such particles. For a mass of 10 GeV and lifetime of 4x10(-11) s, we exclude values greater than 0.14 pb (95% C.L.). These results are used to limit the interpretation of NuTeV's excess of dimuon events.