Stopping quirks at the LHC

Evans, Jared A.; Luty, Markus A.

doi:10.1007/jhep06(2019)090

Title: Stopping quirks at the LHC

Journal Article · 18 June 2019 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2019)090 · OSTI ID:1611665

^[1]; Luty, Markus A. ^[2]

Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics; DOE/OSTI
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics

Quirks are exotic particles charged under a new confining gauge group that can give rise to unique collider signatures, depending on their vector-like mass, quantum numbers, and the confinement scale. In this work, we consider the possibility that quirks produced at the LHC lose all of their kinetic energy through ionization loss before escaping the detector, and annihilate at a time when there are no active pp collisions. We recast an existing CMS search for out-of-time decays of R-hadrons to place new limits on quirk parameter space. We propose several simple modifications to the existing out-of-time search strategy that can give these searches sensitivity in regions of quirk parameter space not covered by any existing or proposed search strategy.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Cincinnati, OH (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011784

OSTI ID:: 1611665

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 2019; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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