https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12906-3
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
LHCb potential to discover long-lived new physics particles with lifetimes above 100 ps
1
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
2
IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Apt. Correus 22085, 46071, Valencia, Spain
3
TIFR, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
4
Institut für Astroteilchen Physik, KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Received:
9
January
2024
Accepted:
10
May
2024
Published online:
12
June
2024
For years, it has been believed that the main LHC detectors can play only a limited role of a lifetime frontier experiment exploring the parameter space of long-lived particles (LLPs)—hypothetical particles with tiny couplings to the Standard Model. This paper demonstrates that the LHCb experiment may become a powerful lifetime frontier experiment if it uses the new Downstream algorithm reconstructing tracks that do not allow hits in the LHCb vertex tracker. In particular, for many LLP scenarios, LHCb may be as sensitive as the proposed experiments beyond the main LHC detectors for various LLP models, including heavy neutral leptons, dark scalars, dark photons, and axion-like particles.
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