Discovery prospects for long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC

Mohammad Mahdi Altakach; Priyanka Lamba; Rafał Masełek; Vasiliki A. Mitsou; Kazuki Sakurai

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10805-z

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Eur. Phys. J. C (2022) 82: 848
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10805-z

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Discovery prospects for long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC

Mohammad Mahdi Altakach¹, Priyanka Lamba¹, Rafał Masełek¹^c, Vasiliki A. Mitsou² and Kazuki Sakurai¹

¹ Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland
² Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), CSIC, Universitat de València, C/ Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain

^c r.maselek@uw.edu.pl

Received: 20 April 2022
Accepted: 14 September 2022
Published online: 28 September 2022

Abstract

In this work, we aim to provide a comprehensive and largely model independent investigation on prospects to detect long-lived multiply charged particles at the LHC. We consider particles with spin 0 and $\frac{1}{2}$ $\frac{1}{2}$ , with electric charges in range $1 \leq | Q / e | \leq 8$ $1 \le |Q/e| \le 8$ , which are singlet or triplet under $S U {(3)}_{C}$ $$SU(3)_C$$ . Such particles might be produced as particle-antiparticle pairs and propagate through detectors, or form a positronium (quarkonium)-like bound state. We consider both possibilities and estimate lower mass bounds on new particles, that can be provided by ATLAS, CMS and MoEDAL experiments at the end of Run 3 and HL-LHC data taking periods. We find out that the sensitivities of ATLAS and CMS are generally stronger than those of MoEDAL at Run 3, while they may be competitive at HL-LHC for $3 ≲ | Q / e | ≲ 7$ $3 \lesssim |Q/e| \lesssim 7$ for all types of long-lived particles we consider.

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