Time-dependent signals of new physics at the LHC
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| author | Fieg, Max H. Fox, Patrick J. Zhang, Jinbo Ghosh, Aishik Varada, Virat Whiteson, Daniel |
| author_facet | Fieg, Max H. Fox, Patrick J. Zhang, Jinbo Ghosh, Aishik Varada, Virat Whiteson, Daniel |
| contents | The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is sensitive to signals of beyond the Standard Model physics through a variety of channels including missing energy and resonance searches. In most searches, the new physics and the Standard Model backgrounds are assumed to be invariant in time, up to systematic effects from the experiment. However, new physics with a time variation would provide an additional handle to separate signal from background. Such a time variation may come from ultralight dark matter coupling to an oscillating background field. In this paper, we consider an interaction of dark matter with quarks and an additional heavy particle, and show that the sensitivity of a search that uses timing information at the LHC can be up to a factor of two stronger compared to one that does not use time information. |
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| spellingShingle | Time-dependent signals of new physics at the LHC Fieg, Max H. Fox, Patrick J. Zhang, Jinbo Ghosh, Aishik Varada, Virat Whiteson, Daniel High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is sensitive to signals of beyond the Standard Model physics through a variety of channels including missing energy and resonance searches. In most searches, the new physics and the Standard Model backgrounds are assumed to be invariant in time, up to systematic effects from the experiment. However, new physics with a time variation would provide an additional handle to separate signal from background. Such a time variation may come from ultralight dark matter coupling to an oscillating background field. In this paper, we consider an interaction of dark matter with quarks and an additional heavy particle, and show that the sensitivity of a search that uses timing information at the LHC can be up to a factor of two stronger compared to one that does not use time information. |
| title | Time-dependent signals of new physics at the LHC |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11071 |