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Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Searching for long-lived particles (LLPs) beyond the Standard Model (SM) is a promising direction in collider experiments. The Georgi-Machacek (GM) model extends the scalar sector in the SM by introducing various new scalar bosons. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Chih-Ting Lu , Xinyu Wang , Xinqi Wei , Yongcheng Wu

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator colliding beams of protons and lead ions at energies up to 7 ZTeV, Z is the atomic…

In this paper we explore the potential of Ultra-peripheral Collisions in the LHC to investigate new physics, focusing specifically on the production of new charged vector bosons ${V}^{\pm}$ that decay into heavy neutral leptons $N_{L}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Y. M. Oviedo-Torres , Sebastian Tapia , J. Zamora-Saa

Many extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of heavy particles with long lifetimes. This article presents the results of a search for events containing at least one long-lived particle that decays at a significant distance…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-27 ATLAS Collaboration

A search is performed for a long-lived particle decaying into a final state that includes a pair of muons of opposite-sign electric charge, using proton-proton collision data collected at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV by the ATLAS detector at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-04 ATLAS Collaboration

The status of the ATLAS Roman Pot detectors (AFP and ALFA) for LHC Run 3 after all refurbishments and improvements done during Long Shutdown 2 is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-19 Maciej Trzebinski

The $LQ\bar D$ operator in R-parity-violating supersymmetry can lead to meson decays to light neutralinos and neutralino decays to lighter mesons, with a long lifetime. Since the high-luminosity LHC is expected to accumulate as much as 3/ab…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Daniel Dercks , Jordy de Vries , Herbi K. Dreiner , Zeren Simon Wang

We have studied three realistic benchmark geometries for a new far detector GAZELLE to search for long-lived particles at the \superkekb accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan. The new detector would be housed in the same building as Belle II and…

In the framework of the low-energy effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), we calculate the production rates of HNLs from meson decays triggered by dimension-six operators. We consider both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

LHCb is a general purpose forward detector located at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Although initially optimized for the study of hadrons containing beauty quarks, the better than expected performance of the detector hardware and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-29 Vladimir Vava Gligorov

The LHC has provided an unprecedented amount of proton-proton collision data, bringing forth exciting opportunities to address fundamental open questions in particle physics. These questions can potentially be answered by performing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-09 CMS Collaboration

The ALICE experiment will be able to detect open charm and beauty hadrons in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions in the new energy regime of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Heavy flavours are a powerful tool to investigate the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-10-20 Francesco Prino

We study the LHC sensitivity to probe a long-lived heavy neutrino $N$ in the context of $Z'$ models. We focus on displaced vertex signatures of $N$ when pair produced via a $Z'$, decaying to leptons and jets inside the inner trackers of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Giovanna Cottin , Arindam Das , Sanjoy Mandal

FASER is a new experiment designed to search for new light weakly-interacting long-lived particles (LLPs) and study high-energy neutrino interactions in the very forward region of the LHC collisions at CERN. The experimental apparatus is…

A search has been performed for long-lived particles that have stopped in the CMS detector, during 7 TeV proton-proton operations of the CERN LHC. The existence of such particles could be inferred from observation of their decays when there…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-03-12 CMS Collaboration

This article presents the basic idea of VHMPID, an upgrade detector for the ALICE experiment at LHC, CERN. The main goal of this detector is to extend the particle identification capabilities of ALICE to give more insight into the evolution…

The ALICE experiment, currently in the commissioning phase, will study nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We review the ALICE heavy-flavour physics program and present a selection of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Dainese

In order to increase its discovery potential, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator will be upgraded in the next decade. The high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) period demands new sensor technologies to cope with increasing radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 D. Vázquez Furelos , M. Carulla , E. Cavallaro , F. Förster , S. Grinstein , J. Lange , I. López Paz , M. Manna , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , S. Terzo

The model of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) is one of the well-motivated models beyond the standard model (BSM) from both theoretical and phenomenological point of views. It is an indispensable ingredient to explain the puzzle of tiny…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-04 Kingman Cheung , Yi-Lun Chung , Hiroyuki Ishida , Chih-Ting Lu