TY - CHAP
T1 - SUSY discovery prospects with MoEDAL
AU - Sakurai, K.
AU - Felea, D.
AU - Mamuzic, J.
AU - Mavromatos, N. E.
AU - Mitsou, V. A.
AU - Pinfold, J. L.
AU - Ruiz De Austri, R.
AU - Santra, A.
AU - Vives, O.
PY - 2020/9/11
Y1 - 2020/9/11
N2 - We present a preliminary study on the possibility to search for massive long-lived electrically charged particles at the MoEDAL detector. MoEDAL is sensitive to highly ionising objects such as magnetic monopoles or massive (meta-)stable electrically charged particles and we focus on the latter in this paper. Requirements on triggering or reducing the cosmic-ray and cavern background, applied in the ATLAS and CMS analyses for long-lived particles, are not necessary at MoEDAL, due to its completely different detector design and extremely low background. On the other hand, MoEDAL requires slow-moving particles, resulting in sensitivity to massive states with typically small production cross sections. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compare the sensitivities of MoEDAL versus ATLAS/CMS for various long-lived particles in supersymmetric models, and we seek a scenario where MoEDAL can provide discovery reach complementary to ATLAS and CMS.
AB - We present a preliminary study on the possibility to search for massive long-lived electrically charged particles at the MoEDAL detector. MoEDAL is sensitive to highly ionising objects such as magnetic monopoles or massive (meta-)stable electrically charged particles and we focus on the latter in this paper. Requirements on triggering or reducing the cosmic-ray and cavern background, applied in the ATLAS and CMS analyses for long-lived particles, are not necessary at MoEDAL, due to its completely different detector design and extremely low background. On the other hand, MoEDAL requires slow-moving particles, resulting in sensitivity to massive states with typically small production cross sections. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compare the sensitivities of MoEDAL versus ATLAS/CMS for various long-lived particles in supersymmetric models, and we seek a scenario where MoEDAL can provide discovery reach complementary to ATLAS and CMS.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092606215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1586/1/012018
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/1586/1/012018
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85092606215
VL - 1586
T3 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
BT - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
T2 - 6th Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, DISCRETE 2018
Y2 - 26 November 2018 through 30 November 2018
ER -