Top Secrets: Long-Lived ALPs in Top Production

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2023
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Schlagworte:
  • High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
  • High Energy Physics - Experiment
  • Axions and ALPs
  • Specific BSM Phenomenology
Beschreibung:
  • We investigate the discovery potential for long-lived particles produced in association with a top-antitop quark pair at the (High-Luminosity) LHC. Compared to inclusive searches for a displaced vertex, top-associated signals offer new trigger options and an extra handle to suppress background. We design a search strategy for a displaced di-muon vertex in the tracking detectors, in association with a reconstructed top-antitop pair. For axion-like particles with masses above the di-muon threshold, we find that the (High-Luminosity) LHC can probe effective top-quark couplings as small as |ctt|/fa = 0.03(0.002)/TeV and proper decay lengths as long as 10(400) m, assuming a cross section of 1fb, with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 150 fb−1 (3 ab−1). Our predictions suggest that searches for top-associated displaced di-muons will explore new terrain in the current sensitivity gap between searches for prompt di-muons and missing energy.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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