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Title
Prospects of searches for long-lived charged particles with MoEDAL
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Abstract
We study the prospects of searches for exotic long-lived particles with the MoEDAL detector at the LHC, assuming the integrated luminosity of 30 fb(-1) that is expected at the end of Run 3. MoEDAL incorporates nuclear track detectors deployed a few metres away from the interaction point, which are sensitive to any highly-ionizing particles. Hence MoEDAL is able to detect singly- or doubly-charged particles with low velocities beta < 0.15 or < 0.3, respectively, and lifetimes larger than O(1) m/c. We examine the MoEDAL sensitivity to various singly-charged super-symmetric particles with long lifetimes and to several types of doubly-charged long-lived particles with different spins and SU(2) charges. We compare the prospective MoEDAL mass reaches to current limits from ATLAS and CMS, which involve auxiliary analysis assumptions. MoEDAL searches for doubly-charged fermions are particularly competitive.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European physical journal : C : particles and fields. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 2020
ISSN
1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI
10.1140/EPJC/S10052-020-8093-5
Volume/pages
80 :6 (2020) , 14 p.
Article Reference
572
ISI
000545752400003
Medium
E-only publicatie
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