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Search for flavoured leptonic decays of long-lived particles in the LHCb detector

Marinangeli, Matthieu Philippe Luther  
2020

New massive long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted by multiple beyond the Standard Model theories. This thesis presents the search of such long-lived particles decaying leptonically in the $e \mu \nu$ final state. The search is performed using 2.31 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 13 $ TeV, seeking for displaced vertices of electrons and muons of opposite charges.

LLPs with masses between 7 to $50 $ GeV/c$^2$, and lifetime between 2 and 50 ps, are explored in this search. Three kinds of LLP production modes are considered: the direct pair production of LLPs from quark interactions, the pair production from a Standard Model like Higgs boson with a mass of $125 $ GeV/c$^2$, and charged current production from an on-shell $W$ boson with an additional lepton.

No evidence of these long-lived states has been observed, upper limits at $95 %$ CL on the production cross-section times branching ratio have been set on the different production mode.

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Type
doctoral thesis
DOI
10.5075/epfl-thesis-7833
Author(s)
Marinangeli, Matthieu Philippe Luther  
Advisors
Bay, Aurelio  
Jury

Prof. Frédéric Courbin (président) ; Prof. Aurelio Bay (directeur de thèse) ; Dr Pascale Jablonka, Dr Martino Borsato, Dr Rafael Coutinho (rapporteurs)

Date Issued

2020

Publisher

EPFL

Publisher place

Lausanne

Public defense year

2020-09-18

Thesis number

7833

Total of pages

167

Subjects

CERN

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LHC

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LHCb

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Long-lived Particles

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LLP

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Displaced Vertices Physics beyond the Standard Model

EPFL units
LPHE  
Faculty
SB  
School
IPHYS  
Doctoral School
EDPY  
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September 3, 2020
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/171331
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