20–25 Aug 2023
Universität Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Detecting disappearing tracks and other exotica at a Muon Collider

23 Aug 2023, 18:10
15m
Hörsaal A (Historic main building)

Hörsaal A

Historic main building

Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
Parallel session talk T10 Searches for New Physics

Speaker

Federico Meloni (ATLAS (ATLAS SM and Beyond))

Description

Exotic beyond the Standard Model signatures, such as long-lived particles or high-mass resonances, are prime examples of the physics potential of a high-energy muon collider. These experimental signatures impose significant constraints on the detector design and requirements on the event reconstruction techniques employed to analyse the data.
For example: dedicated track reconstruction techniques for ionising particles that disappear as they traverse the detector, dedicated data-paths for late-decaying states, or high-granularity calorimetry to aid with the reconstruction of highly-boosted objects.
This talk will highlight some of the experimental challenges that arise when targeting these exotic signatures at a muon collider, and present the development work which is being done to make them possible as well as the expected reach.

Collaboration / Activity IMCC

Primary author

Federico Meloni (ATLAS (ATLAS SM and Beyond))

Presentation materials