Probing naturally light singlets with a displaced vertex trigger
| Autor: | Gershtein, Yuri, Knapen, Simon, Redigolo, Diego |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136758 |
| Popis: | We investigate the physics case for a dedicated trigger on a low mass, hadronic displaced vertex at the high luminosity LHC, relying on the CMS phase II track trigger. We estimate the trigger efficiency with a simplified simulation of the CMS track trigger and show that the L1 trigger rate from fake vertices, B meson decays and secondary interactions with the detector material can likely be brought down to the kHz level with a minimal set of cuts. While it would with any doubt be a severe experimental challenge to implement, we conclude that a displaced vertex trigger could open qualitatively new parameter space for exotic Higgs decays, exotic B decays and even direct production of light resonances. We parametrize the physics potential in terms of a singlet scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs and an axion-like particle with a coupling to gluons, and review a number or relevant models motivated by the hierarchy and strong CP problems, dark matter and baryogenesis. Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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