12–15 Dec 2023
America/Chicago timezone

A Search for Sexaquarks in Parked 2018 Data at CMS

14 Dec 2023, 17:35
10m
WH1-West

WH1-West

Speaker

Wren Vetens (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Description

There has been much interest of late in the hypothetical "Sexaquark", a deeply bound uuddss state with potential as a dark matter candidate from entirely within the Standard Model. We discuss a first-of-its kind search for the production of its anti-particle at the LHC and its subsequent annihilation with a neutron in the CMS beampipe, with the unique doubly strange final state reconstructed entirely within the CMS tracker. Due to its low pileup and minimal trigger requirements, the 2018 B-parking dataset is well-suited to this analysis, and we present the first ever anticipated limits at CMS for this signal.

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Primary author

Wren Vetens (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Co-authors

Kevin Black Prof. Steven Lowette (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, IIHE)

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