MATHUSLA：一种在 HL-LHC 探索寿命前沿的探测器提案
高能物理 - 实验
2019-01-15 v1 高能物理 - 唯象学
摘要
在 LHC 上观测到长寿命粒子将揭示超越标准模型的新物理，可解释我们理解宇宙时的诸多未决问题，并可能指向一个更完备的基本相互作用理论。此类长寿命粒子信号在根本上有其动机，并几乎出现在所有解决层级问题、暗物质、中微子质量与宇宙重子不对称性问题的理论构造中。本文档中我们描述一个大型探测器 MATHUSLA，位于 HL-LHC 某一 相互作用点上方地表，可观测寿命上限达大爆炸核合成极限 0.1 s 的长寿命粒子。我们还指出其大面积探测器使 MATHUSLA 能对宇宙线物理作出重要贡献。由于可能在我们对宇宙的概念性理解上取得重大突破，长寿命粒子搜寻应具有最高优先级。
引用
@article{arxiv.1901.04040,
title = {MATHUSLA: A Detector Proposal to Explore the Lifetime Frontier at the HL-LHC},
author = {Henry Lubatti and Cristiano Alpigiani and Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez and Austin Ball and Liron Barak James Beacham and Yan Benhammo and Karen Salomé Caballero-Mora and Paolo Camarri and Tingting Cao and Roberto Cardarelli and John Paul Chou and David Curtin and Albert de Roeck and Giuseppe Di Sciascio and Miriam Diamond and Marco Drewes and Sarah C. Eno and Rouven Essig and Jared Evans and Erez Etzion and Arturo Fernández Téllez and Oliver Fischer and Jim Freeman and Stefano Giagu and Brandon Gomes and Andy Haas and Yuekun Heng and Giuseppe Iaselli and Ken Johns and Muge Karagoz and Audrey Kvam and Dragoslav Lazic and Liang Li and Barbara Liberti and Zhen Liu and Giovanni Marsella and Piter A. Paye Mamani and Mario Iván Martínez Hernández and Matthew McCullough and David McKeen and Patrick Meade and Gilad Mizrachi and David Morrissey and Meny Raviv Moshe and Antonio Policicchio and Mason Proffitt and Marina Reggiani-Guzzo and Mario Rodríguez-Cahuantzi and Joe Rothberg and Rinaldo Santonico and Marco Schioppa and Jessie Shelton and Brian Shuve and Yiftah Silver and Daniel Stolarski and Martin A. Subieta Vasquez and Guillermo Tejeda Muñoz and Steffie Ann Thayil and Yuhsin Tsai and Emma Torro and Gordon Watts and Charles Young and Jose Zurita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.04040},
year = {2019}
}
备注
8 pages, 5 figures. Input to the update process of the European Strategy for Particle Physics by the MATHUSLA collaboration (http://mathusla.web.cern.ch). See also CERN-PBC-REPORT-2018-007 for the ESPP contribution of the Physics Beyond Colliders working group, which contains a discussion of low-energy simplified models as well as some comments on MATHUSLA's budget and timelines