On the challenges of searching for GeV-scale long-lived particles at the LHC

Abstract Many models of dark matter predict long-lived particles (LLPs) that can give rise to striking signatures at the LHC. Existing searches for displaced vertices are however tailored towards heavy LLPs. In this work we show that this bias severely affects their sensitivity to LLPs with masses a...

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Main Authors: Elias Bernreuther, Juliana Carrasco Mejia, Felix Kahlhoefer, Michael Krämer, Patrick Tunney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-04-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)210