Stopping quirks at the LHC
Abstract Quirks are exotic particles charged under a new confining gauge group that can give rise to unique collider signatures, depending on their vector-like mass, quantum numbers, and the confinement scale. In this work, we consider the possibility that quirks produced at the LHC lose all of thei...
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| description | Abstract Quirks are exotic particles charged under a new confining gauge group that can give rise to unique collider signatures, depending on their vector-like mass, quantum numbers, and the confinement scale. In this work, we consider the possibility that quirks produced at the LHC lose all of their kinetic energy through ionization loss before escaping the detector, and annihilate at a time when there are no active pp collisions. We recast an existing CMS search for out-of-time decays of R-hadrons to place new limits on quirk parameter space. We propose several simple modifications to the existing out-of-time search strategy that can give these searches sensitivity in regions of quirk parameter space not covered by any existing or proposed search strategy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75a24c0331d343ca9941a42ec325a8432022-12-21T19:37:15ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792019-06-012019612710.1007/JHEP06(2019)090Stopping quirks at the LHCJared A. Evans0Markus A. Luty1Department of Physics, University of CincinnatiPhysics Department, University of California, DavisAbstract Quirks are exotic particles charged under a new confining gauge group that can give rise to unique collider signatures, depending on their vector-like mass, quantum numbers, and the confinement scale. In this work, we consider the possibility that quirks produced at the LHC lose all of their kinetic energy through ionization loss before escaping the detector, and annihilate at a time when there are no active pp collisions. We recast an existing CMS search for out-of-time decays of R-hadrons to place new limits on quirk parameter space. We propose several simple modifications to the existing out-of-time search strategy that can give these searches sensitivity in regions of quirk parameter space not covered by any existing or proposed search strategy.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)090Beyond Standard ModelExoticsHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)Lifetime |
| spellingShingle | Jared A. Evans Markus A. Luty Stopping quirks at the LHC Journal of High Energy Physics Beyond Standard Model Exotics Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) Lifetime |
| title | Stopping quirks at the LHC |
| title_full | Stopping quirks at the LHC |
| title_fullStr | Stopping quirks at the LHC |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stopping quirks at the LHC |
| title_short | Stopping quirks at the LHC |
| title_sort | stopping quirks at the lhc |
| topic | Beyond Standard Model Exotics Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) Lifetime |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)090 |
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