| Title: |
New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider |
| Authors: |
Bruce, Roderik; d'Enterria, David; de Roeck, Albert; Drewes, Marco; Farrar, Glennys R.; Giammanco, Andrea; Gould, Oliver; Hajer, Jan; Harland-Lang, Lucian; Heisig, Jan; Jowett, John M.; Kabana, Sonia; Krintiras, Georgios K.; Korsmeier, Michael; Lucente, Michele; Milhano, Guilherme; Mukherjee, Swagata; Niedziela, Jeremi; Okorokov, Vitalii A.; Rajantie, Arttu; Schaumann, Michaela |
| Contributors: |
Helsinki Institute of Physics |
| Publisher Information: |
IOP Publishing |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Helsingfors Universitet: HELDA – Helsingin yliopiston digitaalinen arkisto |
| Subject Terms: |
Physical sciences |
| Description: |
This document summarises proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both through hadronic and ultraperipheral gamma gamma interactions, and that have a competitive or, even, unique discovery potential compared to standard proton-proton collision studies. Illustrative examples include searches for new particles-such as axion-like pseudoscalars, radions, magnetic monopoles, new long-lived particles, dark photons, and sexaquarks as dark matter candidates-as well as new interactions, such as nonlinear or non-commutative QED extensions. We argue that such interesting possibilities constitute a well-justified scientific motivation, complementing standard quark-gluon-plasma physics studies, to continue running with ions at the LHC after the Run-4, i.e. beyond 2030, including light and intermediate-mass ion species, accumulating nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosities in the accessible fb(-1) range per month. ; Peer reviewed |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISBN: |
978-0-00-536151-1; 0-00-536151-6 |
| Relation: |
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus; Valtion perusrahoitus/hankkeet; We thank the participants of the 'Heavy Ions and Hidden Sectors' workshop, held at Louvainla-Neuve on 4 and 5 December 2018. This document sprouted from the many lively discussion that we had in that venue, including many people who are not signatories of this document but who had a significant impact in sharpening our ideas about its content. We appreciate in particular Simon Knapen's contribution to sections 3.1 and 3.3. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 750627. This work was supported by the F.R.S.-FNRS under the Excellence of Science (EOS) project 30820817.; https://hdl.handle.net/10138/319907; 000536151600001 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10138/319907 |
| Rights: |
cc_by ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; openAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3DA11715 |
| Database: |
BASE |