A C++ program for estimating detector sensitivities to long-lived particles: Displaced Decay Counter
Abstract
A series of far-detector programs have been proposed for operation at various interaction points of the Large Hadron Collider during the upcoming runs. Investigating the potential and complementarity of these experiments for new-physics searches goes through the estimation of their sensitivity to specific long-lived particle models. Here, we present an integrated numerical tool written in the C++ language and called Displaced Decay Counter, which we have created to this end and which can be used in association with MadGraph5, Pythia8, or any other state-of-the-art Monte-Carlo collider simulation tool. Several far-detector models have been implemented within the program, accounting for the geometry and integrated luminosity of projected detectors. Additional or more accurate designs can be easily constructed through a dedicated interface. The functionality of this tool is exemplified through the discussion of three benchmark scenarios, which we consider for the validation of the implemented detector models.
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@article{arxiv.2308.07371,
title = {A C++ program for estimating detector sensitivities to long-lived particles: Displaced Decay Counter},
author = {Florian Domingo and Julian Günther and Jong Soo Kim and Zeren Simon Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07371},
year = {2024}
}
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v1: 16 pages, 4 figures; v2: refs updated; v3: accepted for publication in EPJC, 20 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected, inclusion of additional physical benchmarks; the tool is publicly accessible at https://github.com/wzeren/Displaced-Decay-Counter