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# Search for long-lived charged massive particles in pp collisions at square root s = 1.8 TeV.

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University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
(Impact Factor: 7.51). 05/2003; 90(13):131801.
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We report a search for the production of long-lived charged massive particles in a data sample of 90 pb(-1) of square root[s]=1.8 TeV pp collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The search uses the muonlike penetration and anomalously high ionization energy loss signature expected for such a particle to discriminate it from backgrounds. The data are found to agree with background expectations, and cross section limits of O(1) pb are derived using two reference models, a stable quark and a stable scalar lepton.

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