1st seminar in S-LLP: Seminar series on Long Lived Particle searches

Thursday 25 Feb 2021, 10:00 → 12:00 Asia/Tokyo

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Hidetoshi Otono (Kyushu University (JP)), Hideyuki Oide (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)), Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo), Osamu Jinnouchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)), Ryu Sawada (University of Tokyo (JP)), Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)

S-LLP is a series of seminars on long lived particle searches. We invite experts, theory and experiment, on a selected topic for each seminar.

At S-LLP, physicists gather to share the latest results, plans and ideas for future searches.

The topic of the 1st seminar is dark photon.

Dr. Graham White (IPMU) will tell us theory on LLP dark photons, and Dr. Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL, co-chair of EF09-BSM Generic) will talk about the experimental side including the topics being studied in the Snowmass process.

We use Slack for discussion. Please read the instruction attached below.

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1 Opening

Speakers: Hidetoshi Otono (Kyushu University (JP)), Hideyuki Oide (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)), Natsumi Nagata (University of Tokyo), Osamu Jinnouchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)), Ryu Sawada (University of Tokyo (JP)), Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)

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2 Dark photons: motivations, cosmological signatures and constraints

Dark matter is powerful evidence that the Standard Model is not complete. Dark matter can be a part of a hidden sector and Dark photons are a generic predictions of such sectors. They can be produced through a variety of mechanisms and I will give a brief overview of these mechanisms. I will give then discuss cosmological constraints and signals such as modifications to the light element abundances, broadening the surface of last scattering, modifying the cosmic microwave background and the production of a gravitational wave background. I will then discuss Super-Nova constraints before discussing beam dump experiments.

Speakers: Graham White (TRIUMF), Graham White (Monash University)

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3 Long-lived particles at future collider experiments

The recently-concluded European Strategy process and the currently ongoing US Planning Exercise (aka Snowmass) provide a good opportunity to look at the landscape of beyond-Standard-Model long-lived particle (LLP) searches at future experiments.
After a high-level overview of the landscape of studies that have been planned for Snowmass, including physics beyond colliders, I will touch two main aspects that are particularly relevant for collider experiments and have emerged in the last years.
Firstly, additional external detectors can complement existing collider and beam-dump experiments in probing a much wider parameter-space for a large variety of BSM models that include LLPs in their phenomenology.
Secondly, the signatures of LLPs in the detectors can be substantially different from promptly-produced BSM signatures and the current collider detectors have not been designed with requirements that take this fully into account; it is therefore important to think ahead in the design of future collider experiments to identify which requirements might differ or need to be additionally imposed in order to fully exploit the rich penomenology behind models that incluide LLPs.
I will review the state-of-the art on these two aspects, focusing on the items that have been most recently planned to be pursued in the context of the Snowmass effort.

Speaker: Simone Pagan Griso (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

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