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A guide to hunting long-lived particles at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-09 v1

Abstract

This article is a pedagogical review to searches for long-lived particles at the LHC, primarily aimed at experimentalists and theorists seeking to initiate and/or deepen their research in this field. We cover general theory priors and example models, the main experimental techniques for long-lived particles and some of the subtleties involved with both estimating signal efficiencies and background rates.

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@article{arxiv.2212.03883,
  title  = {A guide to hunting long-lived particles at the LHC},
  author = {Simon Knapen and Steven Lowette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03883},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

31 pages, 5 figures. Invited review for Annual Reviews Nuclear Particle Science 2023