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At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), several far detectors such as FASER and MATHUSLA have been proposed to target the long-lived particles (LLPs) featured with displaced vertices. Naturally one question arises as to the feasibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

For years, it has been believed that the main LHC detectors can only restrictively play the role of a lifetime frontier experiment exploring the parameter space of long-lived particles (LLPs) - hypothetical particles with tiny couplings to…

In the search for beyond the Standard Model (SM) physics, long-lived particles (LLPs) have emerged as potential candidates and are being explored in various ongoing experiments. Future lepton colliders, such as the FCC-ee, shall provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Camellia Bose , Herbi K. Dreiner , Nivedita Ghosh , Shigeki Matsumoto , Rhitaja Sengupta

ALICE has been specifically optimized to study heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, up to a charged particle density of 8000 per unit of rapidity in central heavy-ion collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 5.5 TeV. The High Momentum Particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Levente Molnar

The latest results of long-lived particle (LLP) searches from the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider are presented. Analyses are presented with a focus on detector subsystem needed to discern the LLP signature from Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-18 Julia Gonski

The ALICE Collaboration completed the upgrade of the detector and is now commissioning for the beginning of the data taking during LHC Run 3. In parallel, R&D activities and simulation studies are being performed to define the future of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-09 Domenico Colella , for the ALICE Collaboration

Long-lived particles (LLPs) are a common feature in many beyond the Standard Model theories, including supersymmetry, and are generically produced in exotic Higgs decays. Unfortunately, no existing or proposed search strategy will be able…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 John Paul Chou , David Curtin , H. J. Lubatti

The discovery of a new type of a heavy long-lived particle (LLP) would be of fundamental significance due to their existence in many beyond the Standard Model scenarios. LLPs are anticipated in a wide range of physics models which extend…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Paul D. Jackson

We study the prospects of a displaced-vertex search of sterile neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the framework of the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory ($\nu$SMEFT). The production and decay of sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Jordy de Vries , Herbert K. Dreiner , Julian Y. Günther , Zeren Simon Wang , Guanghui Zhou

The ALICE Collaboration proposes a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Nicola Nicassio

Recently Bauer $\textit{et al.}$ arXiv:1909.13022 proposed ANUBIS, an auxiliary detector to be installed in one of the shafts above the ATLAS or CMS interaction point, as a tool to search for long-lived particles. Here, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Martin Hirsch , Zeren Simon Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are two well-motivated classes of particles beyond the Standard Model. It is intriguing to explore the new detection opportunities that may arise if both particle types coexist.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Marta Burgos Marcos , Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

Future lepton colliders such as the CEPC and FCC-ee would run as high-luminosity $Z-$boson factories, which offer a unique opportunity to study long-lived particles which couple to Z-bosons. In order to exemplify this particular advantage,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

A search for long-lived particles (LLPs) using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collision data with $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC is presented. The search targets LLPs with masses between $5$ and $55$ GeV that decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-18 ATLAS Collaboration

Long-lived particles are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model and have been gaining interest in recent years. In this Letter we present a competitive proposal that substantially extends the sensitivity in lifetime by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-05 Martin Bauer , Oleg Brandt , Lawrence Lee , Christian Ohm

The potential of the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb detectors for the measurement of quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions, both in nucleus-nucleus (A-A) and in proton-nucleus (p-A) interactions, in the years 2015 until about 2030 in the LHC Runs…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-14 Michael Winn

We present the current status of the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle (LLP) detector at the HL-LHC, covering the design, fabrication and installation at CERN Point 5. MATHUSLA40 is a…

Long-lived particles have significant enough lifetimes as to, when produced in collisions, leave a distinct signature in the detectors. Driven by increasingly higher energies, trigger and reconstruction algorithms at particle colliders are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-09-14 Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez

We study the search prospect of long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) pair produced in decays of axionlike particles (ALPs) at the proposed Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF), focusing on the center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=3.773$ GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaokun Li , Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaorong Zhou

We report on recent progress in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC, updating the information in the original Letter of Intent (LoI), see CDS:LHCC-I-031, arXiv:1811.00927. A suitable site…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-04 Cristiano Alpigiani , Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez , Austin Ball , Liron Barak , Jared Barron , Brian Batell , James Beacham , Yan Benhammo , Karen Salomé Caballero-Mora , Paolo Camarri , Roberto Cardarelli , John Paul Chou , Wentao Cui , David Curtin , Miriam Diamond , Keith R. Dienes , Liam Andrew Dougherty , Giuseppe Di Sciascio , Marco Drewes , Erez Etzion , Rouven Essig , Jared Evans , Arturo Fernández Téllez , Oliver Fischer , Jim Freeman , Jonathan Gall , Ali Garabaglu , Stefano Giagu , Stephen Elliott Greenberg , Bhawna Gomber , Roberto Guida , Andy Haas , Yuekun Heng , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Giuseppe Iaselli , Ken Johns , Audrey Kvam , Dragoslav Lazic , Liang Li , Barbara Liberti , Zhen Liu , Henry Lubatti , Lillian Luo , Giovanni Marsella , Mario Iván Martínez Hernández , Matthew McCullough , David McKeen , Patrick Meade , Gilad Mizrachi , O. G. Morales-Olivares , David Morrissey , Meny Raviv Moshe , Antonio Policicchio , Mason Proffitt , Dennis Cazar Ramirez , Matthew Reece , Steven H. Robertson , Mario Rodríguez-Cahuantzi , Albert de Roeck , Amber Roepe , Joe Rothberg , James John Russell , Heather Russell , Rinaldo Santonico , Marco Schioppa , Jessie Shelton , Brian Shuve , Yiftah Silver , Luigi Di Stante , Daniel Stolarski , Mike Strauss , David Strom , John Stupak , Martin A. Subieta Vasquez , Sanjay Kumar Swain , Guillermo Tejeda Muñoz , Steffie Ann Thayil , Brooks Thomas , Yuhsin Tsai , Emma Torro , Gordon Watts , Charles Young , Jose Zurita