Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with level-1 trigger scouting data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV

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Authors: Aram Hayrapetyan, В. Макаренко, Armen Tumasyan, Wolfgang Adam, L. Benato, T. Bergauer, Marko Dragicevic, Priya Sajid Hussain, Manfred Jeitler, Natascha Krammer, A. Li, Dietrich Liko
+88 more Mark Matthewman, J. Schieck, Robert Schöfbeck, Maryam Shooshtari, M. Sonawane, Wolfgang Waltenberger, Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz, X. Janssen, H. Kwon, Daniel Ocampo Henao, T. Van Laer, Pierre Van Mechelen A, Jas Bierkens, Nordin Breugelmans, J. D’Hondt, Soumya Dansana, A. De Moor, Martin Delcourt, Felix Heyen, Y. Hong, Pavlo Kashko, S. Lowette, I Makarenko, Denise Müller, S. Tavernier, M G Tytgat, Gerrit Patrick Van Onsem, S. Van Putte, David Vannerom, B. Bilin, Barbara Clerbaux, Aloke Kumar Das, Isabelle De Bruyn, G. De Lentdecker, Hugues Evard, L. Favart, P. Gianneios, Ali Khalilzadeh, Fakhri Alam Khan, Andrea Malara, Muhammad Aamir Shahzad, Archana Sharma, Laurent Thomas, M. Vanden Bemden, Catherine Vander Velde, Pascal Vanlaer, Fengwangdong Zhang, M. De Coen, Didar Dobur, Cristina Giordano, G. Gökbulut, Karam Kaspar, David Kavtaradze, David Marckx, K. Skovpen, Adina Maria Tomaru, N. Van Den Bossche, J Van der linden, Vandenbroeck, Jules, H. Aarup Petersen, S. Bein, A. Benecke, Agni Bethani, G. Bruno, Alessandra Cappati, Jerome De Favereau De Jeneret, Christophe Delaere, Francisco Gameiro Casalinho, Andrea Giammanco, Ahmet Oguz Guzel, Vincent Lemaître, Jindrich Lidrych, Paul Malek, Paola Mastrapasqua, S. Turkcapar, Gilvan Augusto Alves, M. Barroso Ferreira Filho, E. Coelho, C. Hensel, Diego Matos Figueiredo, T. Menezes De Oliveira, Clemencia Mora Herrera, P. Rebello Teles, Mariana Soeiro, E. J. Tonelli Manganote, Antonio Vilela Pereira, W. L. Aldá Júnior, H. Brandao Malbouisson
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Abstract

A search for heavy long-lived charged particles at the LHC is presented. Particles interacting with the CMS muon detector across several bunch crossings are searched for using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.7 fb$^{-1}$. This is the first search relying on the novel level-1 trigger scouting data set collected without any trigger selection, allowing correlations between bunch crossings to be analyzed. The results are interpreted as upper limits on the cross sections of several benchmark processes with pair production of heavy long-lived charged particles. Upper limits on the fiducial cross section of a heavy long-lived charged particle with $p_\mathrm{T}$$\gt$ 500 GeV and $\lvertη\rvert$$\lt$ 0.83 are also set in different ranges of $β=v/c$. This analysis is a crucial proof of concept for the level-1 trigger data scouting system and complements existing searches for heavy long-lived charged particles by extending the sensitivity to lower $β$ values.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Particle Detector Development and Performance High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

Publication details

Journal / source
DESY (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC)
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN