Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J. W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.Dragicevic, M.Gürpınar Güler, EmineGüler, Yalçın2023-11-112023-11-1120231029-8479https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2023)210https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/4739A search for long-lived particles decaying in the outer regions of the CMS silicon tracker or in the calorimeters is presented. The search is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at root s = 13TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC in 2016-2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). A novel technique, using nearly trackless and out-of-time jet information combined in a deep neural network discriminator, is employed to identify decays of long-lived particles. The results are interpreted in a simplified model of chargino-neutralino production, where the neutralino is the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, is long-lived, and decays to a gravitino and either a Higgs or Z boson. This search is most sensitive to neutralino proper decay lengths of approximately 0.5 m, for which masses up to 1.18TeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. The current search is the best result to date in the mass range from the kinematic limit imposed by the Higgs boson mass up to 1.8TeV.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBeyond Standard ModelHadron-Hadron ScatteringCross-SectionSupersymmetryHiggsDecaysSquarkArticle10.1007/JHEP07(2023)2102-s2.0-85182831863