Stable massive particles at colliders

By M. Fairbairn, A. Kraan, D. Milstead, Torbjörn Sjöstrand, Peter Z. Skands, T. Sloan. 2006

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We review the theoretical motivations and experimental status of searches for stable massive particles (SMPs) which could be sufficiently long-lived as to be directly detected at collider experiments. The discovery of such particles would address a number of important questions in modern physics including the origin and composition of dark matter in the universe and the unification of the fundamental forces. This review describes the techniques used in SMP-searches at collider experiments and the limits so far obtained on the production of SMPs which possess various colour, electric and magnetic charge quantum numbers. We also describe theoretical scenarios which predict SMPs along with the phenomenology needed to model their production at colliders and interactions with matter. In addition, the interplay between collider searches and open questions in cosmology such as dark matter composition is addressed.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Search for massive, long-lived particles using multitrack displaced vertices or displaced lepton pairs in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector (2015, neutral): “[1] and references therein).”
Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider (2019, background): “Searches for HSCPs are based on the signature of highly ionizing tracks and/or an anomalous TOF between the particle’s production at the IP and its arrival in the muon detector [390] (see section 3.”
Searches for heavy long-lived charged particles with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at s=8\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\odds (2014, background): “Heavy long-lived particles (LLP) are predicted in a range of extensions of the Standard Model (SM) [1].”