13–17 May 2024
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
US/Eastern timezone

Discovering Quirks with Displaced Vertices

16 May 2024, 17:00
15m
David Lawrence Hall 106 (University of Pittsburgh)

David Lawrence Hall 106

University of Pittsburgh

Speaker

Joshua Forsyth

Description

Quirks are particles with interesting dynamics that appear in several motivated extensions of the Standard Model. Quirky bound states associated with Higgs naturalness may be copiously produced at the LHC. So far, however, collider bounds may be as weak as a few hundred GeV. I show how bound states of this type can be found using the displaced decays of hidden sector glueballs, significantly increasing their discovery potential at the LHC.

Authors

Christopher Verhaaren (Brigham Young University) Joshua Forsyth Matthew Low (University of Pittsburgh)

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