Thursday, October 3, 2024, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
Juliette Alimena, DESY Hamburg
Abstract:
Particles beyond the standard model (SM) can generically have lifetimes
that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced
at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these
long-lived particles (LLPs) can decay far from the interaction vertex of
the primary proton-proton collision. Such LLP signatures are distinct
from those of promptly decaying particles that are targeted by the
majority of searches for new physics at the LHC, often requiring
customized techniques to identify, for example, significantly displaced
decay vertices, tracks with atypical properties, and short track
segments. In this talk, I will present the latest searches for LLPs at
the LHC and other experiments and then give my view of where the field
will go in the future.