Looking forward to photon-coupled long-lived particles at the LHC Forward Physics Facility

13 Jun 2023, 17:30
20m
305 (IBS Science and Culture Center)

305

IBS Science and Culture Center

Collider Physics Parallel: Collider Physics

Speaker

Krzysztof Jodlowski (IBS CTPU)

Description

Many Dark Sector models contain photon-coupled long-lived particles. An outstanding example is an axion-like particle decaying into two photons. The forward physics detectors at the LHC, e.g., FASER, were shown to be particularly suitable for hunting ~sub-GeV ALPs thanks to numerous photons produced in pp collisions, which in turn are efficiently converted into ALPs by the Primakoff scattering. We consider a few of beyond the SM physics scenarios in which similar processes can occur. We find that FASER2 experiment will cover a significant part of the available parameter space for each of them. Moreover, we show that secondary production of LLPs can improve the coverage of parameter spaces towards the regime of smaller lifetimes.

Secondary category for the parallel session (optional) BSM Theories

Primary author

Krzysztof Jodlowski (IBS CTPU)

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