Search for exotic physics with long-lived particles at ATLAS
Search for exotic physics with long-lived particles at ATLAS
- Event time: 4:00pm until 5:00pm
- Event date: 17th March 2023
- Speaker: Cristiano Sebastiani
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) and Zoom James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Exotic long-lived particles (LLPs) could provide valuable insights into the nature of Dark Matter (DM) and represent a potential extension to the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. However, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) search programs may have overlooked LLPs due to their unique features, which are often dismissed as noise. Decay of LLPs outside of the interaction region gives rise to striking signatures, such as late calorimetric energy deposits, displaced vertices, and long time-of-flight. This presentation focuses on the current status and experimental challenges of searching for LLPs with the ATLAS detector, with an emphasis on innovative techniques used to improve sensitivity. Lastly, this presentation will discuss the prospects for the LLP programme at CERN in the future.
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