Search for Massive Long-lived Highly Ionising Particles with the ATLAS Dete

A search is made for massive highly ionising particles with lifetimes in excess of 100 ns, with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, using 3.1 pb(-1) of pp collision data taken at roo ...

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