Search for Higgs-like bosons decaying into long-lived exotic particles

Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2016;76(12):664. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4489-7. Epub 2016 Dec 2.

Abstract

A search is presented for massive long-lived particles, in the 20-60 [Formula: see text] mass range with lifetimes between 5 and 100 [Formula: see text]. The dataset used corresponds to 0.62[Formula: see text] of proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb detector at [Formula: see text]. The particles are assumed to be pair-produced by the decay of a Higgs-like boson with mass between 80 and 140 [Formula: see text]. No excess above the background expectation is observed and limits are set on the production cross-section as a function of the long-lived particle mass and lifetime and of the Higgs-like boson mass.