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Search for heavy stable charged particles at the CMS experiment

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Search for heavy stable charged particles at the CMS experiment

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2012-10

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method of searching for Heavy Stable Charged Particles (HSCP) using dE/dx and momentum measurements from the CMS inner tracking system is presented. The shape of the dE/dx distribution is used to distinguish background from signal, in combination with slicing the data into bins of pseudorapidity and number of dE/dx measurements, which together extend and improve on a previous analysis conducted as a counting experiment. In particular, the expected minimum cross section to make a discovery of 5-sigma significance is reduced, and expected upper limits are more restrictive. The data are consistent with the background-only hypothesis and are used to set upper limits on the production cross section as a function of mass for several different HSCP models. The data sample used was collected by the CMS detector in 2011 pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, corresponding to approximately 5/fb.

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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. October 2012. Major:Physics. Advisor: Yuichi Kubota. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 127 pages.

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Cooper, Seth Isaac. (2012). Search for heavy stable charged particles at the CMS experiment. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/141457.

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