Collider searches for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model

L Lee, C Ohm, A Soffer, TT Yu - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite decades of attempts to reveal its flaws, the Standard Model of particle physics (SM)
has withstood all experimental tests and its predictions are in excellent agreement with data …

[HTML][HTML] Exotic Higgs Decays

M Cepeda, S Gori… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Exotic decays of the Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs boson into beyond-the-SM particles
are predicted in a wide range of well-motivated theories. The enormous samples of Higgs …

Higgs physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

M Cepeda, S Gori, P Ilten, M Kado, F Riva… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a
success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a …

[HTML][HTML] Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider

J Alimena, J Beacham, M Borsato… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] HiggsBounds-5: testing Higgs sectors in the LHC 13 TeV Era

P Bechtle, D Dercks, S Heinemeyer, T Klingl… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
We describe recent developments of the public computer code HiggsBounds. In particular,
these include the incorporation of LHC Higgs search results from Run 2 at a center-of-mass …

[HTML][HTML] Two-real-scalar-singlet extension of the SM: LHC phenomenology and benchmark scenarios

T Robens, T Stefaniak, J Wittbrodt - The European Physical Journal C, 2020 - Springer
We investigate the LHC phenomenology of a model where the Standard Model (SM) scalar
sector is extended by two real scalar singlets. A\({{\mathbb {Z}} _2}\otimes {{\mathbb {Z}} …

[HTML][HTML] Search for neutral long-lived particles in pp collisions at = 13 TeV that decay into displaced hadronic jets in the ATLAS calorimeter

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract A search for decays of pair-produced neutral long-lived particles (LLPs) is
presented using 139 fb− 1 of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at …

[HTML][HTML] Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into long-lived particles in pp collisions at = 13 TeV using displaced vertices in the ATLAS inner detector

G Aad, B Abbott, DC Abbott, A Abed Abud… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract A novel search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of long-lived neutral
particles, each decaying into a bottom quark pair, is performed using 139 fb− 1 of\(\sqrt {s}\) …

[HTML][HTML] Search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson into two light pseudoscalars with four photons in the final state in proton-proton collisions at = 13 TeV

A Tumasyan, W Adam, JW Andrejkovic… - Journal of High Energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract A search for the exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars,
each of which subsequently decays into a pair of photons, is presented. The search uses …

Electroweak phase transition with spontaneous Z2-breaking

M Carena, Z Liu, Y Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract This work investigates a simple, representative extension of the Standard Model
with a real scalar singlet and spontaneous Z 2 breaking, which allows for a strongly first …