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Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

Alimena, Juliette
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Beacham, James
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Borsato, Martino
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September 1, 2020
Journal Of Physics G-Nuclear And Particle Physics

Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles (LLPs) can decay far from the interaction vertex of the primary proton-proton collision. Such LLP signatures are distinct from those of promptly decaying particles that are targeted by the majority of searches for new physics at the LHC, often requiring customized techniques to identify, for example, significantly displaced decay vertices, tracks with atypical properties, and short track segments. Given their non-standard nature, a comprehensive overview of LLP signatures at the LHC is beneficial to ensure that possible avenues of the discovery of new physics are not overlooked. Here we report on the joint work of a community of theorists and experimentalists with the ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb experiments-as well as those working on dedicated experiments such as MoEDAL, milliQan, MATHUSLA, CODEX-b, and FASER-to survey the current state of LLP searches at the LHC, and to chart a path for the development of LLP searches into the future, both in the upcoming Run 3 and at the high-luminosity LHC. The work is organized around the current and future potential capabilities of LHC experiments to generally discover new LLPs, and takes a signature-based approach to surveying classes of models that give rise to LLPs rather than emphasizing any particular theory motivation. We develop a set of simplified models; assess the coverage of current searches; document known, often unexpected backgrounds; explore the capabilities of proposed detector upgrades; provide recommendations for the presentation of search results; and look towards the newest frontiers, namely high-multiplicity 'dark showers', highlighting opportunities for expanding the LHC reach for these signals.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1361-6471/ab4574
Web of Science ID

WOS:000570614200001

Author(s)
Alimena, Juliette
Beacham, James
Borsato, Martino
Cheng, Yangyang
Vidal, Xabier Cid
Cottin, Giovanna
Curtin, David
De Roeck, Albert
Desai, Nishita
Evans, Jared A.
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Date Issued

2020-09-01

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
Journal Of Physics G-Nuclear And Particle Physics
Volume

47

Issue

9

Article Number

090501

Subjects

Physics, Nuclear

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Physics, Particles & Fields

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Physics

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beyond the standard model

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long-lived particles

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large hadron collider

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high-luminosity lhc

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collider phenomenology

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high-energy collider experiments

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proton-proton collisions

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dark gauge forces

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root-s=13 tev

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magnetic monopoles

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pp collisions

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high-energy

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majorana neutrinos

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exclusion limits

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baryon asymmetry

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pair production

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REVIEWED

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