Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches

Farina, Marco; Low, Matthew

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.119.111801

Title: Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches

Journal Article · Thu Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.119.111801· OSTI ID:1536555

Farina, Marco ^[1]; Low, Matthew ^[2]

Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States). New High Energy Theory Center. Dept. of Physics
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States). School of Natural Sciences

Quirks are particles that are charged both under the standard model and under a new confining group. The quirk setup assumes there are no light flavors of the new confining group, so that while the theory is in a confining phase, the quirk-antiquirk distance can be macroscopic. In this Letter, we reinterpret existing collider limits, those from monojet and heavy stable charged particle searches, as limits on quirks. Additionally, we propose a new search in the magnetic-field-less CMS data for quirks and estimate the sensitivity. We focus on the region where the confinement scale is roughly between 1 and 100 eV and find mass constraints in the TeV range, depending on the quirk’s quantum numbers.

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Research Organization:: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010008

OSTI ID:: 1536555

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1390359

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 119, Issue 11; ISSN 0031-9007

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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