https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1308-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A new window at the LHC: BSM signals using tagged protons
1
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
2
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
3
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg, 188300, Russia
* e-mail: v.a.khoze@durham.ac.uk
Received:
16
February
2010
Published online:
20
April
2010
The signature at the LHC of many Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) scenarios is events with large missing energy. If the forward outgoing protons are measured, we show that the production and decay of BSM particles in the central rapidity interval, with gaps in rapidity either side, offer certain advantages over inclusive production, to search for signals (a) with missing longitudinal 4-momentum (typical of invisible Higgs production), and (b) for new light pseudoscalar bosons.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2010
