Visible Collider Signals of Natural Quirks
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-06-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
Though some LHC searches for new physics exceed the TeV scale, there may be discoveries waiting to be made at much lower masses. We outline a simple quirk model, motivated by models that address the hierarchy problem through neutral naturalness, in which new electroweakly charged states with masses as low as 100 GeV have not yet been probed by the LHC. We also describe a novel search strategy which is complementary to current search methods. In particular, we show its potential to discover natural quirks over regions of parameter space that present methods will leave unexplored, even after the LHC's high-luminosity run.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.02940,
title = {Visible Collider Signals of Natural Quirks},
author = {Joshua Forsyth and Matthew Low and Carson Tenney and Christopher B. Verhaaren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02940},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Text updated to match the published version. 24 pages + appendices and references, 10 figures