Volume 316 - XXVI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2018) - WG3: Higgs and BSM Physics in Hadron Collisions
Probing BSM physics with electron-proton colliders
D. Curtin, K. Deshpande, O. Fischer, J.F. Zurita*
*corresponding author
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Pre-published on: 2018 September 20
Published on: 2018 November 23
Abstract
In this talk I will illustrate with two examples (Higgsino dark matter and Exotic Higgs decays) how electron-proton colliders present unique opportunities to probe BSM scenarios where proton-proton colliders fall short due to the experimental difficulties in reconstructing the signal due to the large hadronic backgrounds. The \emph{leit-motiv} of these examples are long-lived particles (LLPs), which have received recently a lot of attention from both the experimental and theoretical communities. We find that the proposed $e^-p$ colliders can be competitive against their more energetic $pp$ incarnations for lifetimes between a millimeter and a micron, depending on the physics scenario under consideration.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.316.0090
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