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Long-lived charged massive particles (CHAMPs) appear in various particle physics models beyond the Standard Model. In this Letter, we discuss the prospects for studying the stopping and decaying events of such long-lived CHAMPs at the LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Shoji Asai , Koichi Hamaguchi , Satoshi Shirai

This thesis summarises four years of research aiming at revealing the prospects for detection of long-lived particles at the LHC. It contains results of four projects, which have been published as independent articles. Each of the projects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-24 Rafał Masełek

We explore the physics potential of using precision timing information at the LHC in searches for long-lived particles (LLPs). In comparison with the light Standard Model particles, the decay products of massive LLPs arrive at detectors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-15 Jia Liu , Zhen Liu , Lian-Tao 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…

We report on recent progress and next steps in the design of the proposed MATHUSLA Long Lived Particle (LLP) detector for the HL-LHC as part of the Snowmass 2021 process. Our understanding of backgrounds has greatly improved, aided by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-31 Cristiano Alpigiani , Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez , Austin Ball , Liron Barak , Jared Barron , Brian Batell , James Beacham , Yan Benhammo , Benjamin Brau , Karen Salomé Caballero-Mora , Paolo Camarri , Roberto Cardarelli , John Paul Chou , Wentao Cui , David Curtin , Miriam Diamond , Keith R. Dienes , Liam Andrew Dougherty , William Dougherty , Marco Drewes , Sameer Erramilli , Rouven Essig , Erez Etzion , Jared Evans , Arturo Fernández Téllez , Grace Finlayson , Oliver Fischer , Jim Freeman , Jonathan Gall , Ali Garabaglu , Aran Garcia-Bellido , Stefano Giagu , Bhawna Gomber , Stephen Elliott Greenberg , Roberto Guida , Andy Haas , Bahgat Hassan , Yuekun Heng , Shih-Chieh Hsu , Keegan Humphrey , Giuseppe Iaselli , Ken Johns , Audrey Kvam , Dragoslav Lazic , Liang Li , Jiahao Liao , 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 , Ljiljana Morvai , Meny Raviv Moshe , Michalis Panagiotou , Mason Proffitt , Dennis Cazar Ramirez , Matthew Reece , Steven H. Robertson , Mario Rodríguez-Cahuantzi , Albert de Roeck , Amber Roepe , Larry Ruckman , James John Russell , Heather Russell , Halil Saka , Rinaldo Santonico , Marco Schioppa , Giuseppe Di Sciascio , Jessie Shelton , Brian Shuve , Yiftah Silver , Luigi Di Stante , Daniel Stolarski , Mike Strauss , David Strom , John Stupak , Martin A. Subieta Vasquez , Sanjay Kumar Swain , Chin Lung Tan , Guillermo Tejeda Muñoz , Steffie Ann Thayil , Brooks Thomas , Emma Torro , Yuhsin Tsai , Gordon Watts , Zijun Xu , Charles Young , Igor Zolkin , Jose Zurita

MATHUSLA is a proposed displaced vertex detector for neutral long-lived particle decays. It was proposed with general specifications of the size of its decay volume and its location. In this study, different simplified models containing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-09 Imran Alkhatib

We advocate for the construction of a new detector element at the LHCb experiment, designed to search for displaced decays of beyond standard model long-lived particles, taking advantage of a large shielded space in the LHCb cavern that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-07 Vladimir V. Gligorov , Simon Knapen , Michele Papucci , Dean J. Robinson

Visible signals from the decays of light long-lived hidden sector particles have been extensively searched for at beam dump, fixed-target, and collider experiments. If such hidden sectors couple to the Standard Model through mediators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-23 Asher Berlin , Felix Kling

Long-lived particles that are present in many new physics models beyond the standard model, can be searched for in a number of newly proposed lifetime frontier experiments at the LHC. The signals of the long-lived dark photons can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-29 Mingxuan Du , Rundong Fang , Zuowei Liu , Van Que Tran

Many existing or proposed intensity-frontier search experiments look for decay signatures of light long-lived particles (LLPs), highly displaced from the interaction point, in a distant detector that is well-shielded from SM background.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-23 Krzysztof Jodłowski , Felix Kling , Leszek Roszkowski , Sebastian Trojanowski

We draw a possible scenario for the observation of massive long-lived charged particles at the LHC detector ATLAS. The required flexibility of the detector triggers and of the identification and reconstruction systems are discussed. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ambrosanio , B. Mele , A. Nisati , S. Petrarca , G. Polesello , A. Rimoldi , G. Salvini

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Simon Knapen , Steven Lowette

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

Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an unambiguous signal for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). They have a distinct detector signature, with decay lengths corresponding to lifetimes of around nanoseconds or longer. Lepton colliders…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-18 Yulei Zhang , Cen Mo , Xiang Chen , Bingzhi Li , Hongyang Chen , Jifeng Hu , Liang Li

We investigate the discovery potential at the MATHUSLA experiment of a long-lived particle (LLP), which is the heavier state of inelastic scalar dark matter (DM) in third generation-philic $U(1)$ ($U(1)_{X_3}$) extension of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-16 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

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

In contrast to the decay products ensuing from a fast moving particle which are collimated along the original direction of the parent, those from a slow moving particle are distributed over a wide region. In the context of searches for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-20 Shankha Banerjee , Geneviève Bélanger , Biplob Bhattacherjee , Fawzi Boudjema , Rohini M. Godbole , Swagata Mukherjee

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

In this work, we aim to provide a comprehensive and largely model independent investigation on prospects to detect long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC. We consider particles with spin 0 and $\frac{1}{2}$, with electric charges…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Mohammad Mahdi Altakach , Priyanka Lamba , Rafał Masełek , Vasiliki A. Mitsou , Kazuki Sakurai

We propose a new strategy to look for long-lived particles (LLP) at the LHC. The LLPs are produced at one experiment, but its decay products are detected by a detector at another experiment. We use a confining Hidden Valley scenario as a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-07 Chaochen Yuan , Huaqiao Zhang , Yue Zhao , Guoming Chen