Opportunities for new physics searches with heavy ions at colliders

d’Enterria, David; Drewes, Marco; Giammanco, Andrea; Hajer, Jan; Bratkovskaya, Elena; Bruce, Roderik; Burmasov, Nazar; Dyndal, Mateusz; Gould, Oliver; Grabowska-Bold, Iwona; Gumberidze, Malgorzata; Gunji, Taku; Holzmann, Romain; Jowett, John M.; Kryshen, Evgeny; Okorokov, Vitalii A.; Schmidt, Ida; Upreti, Aditya

Abstract

Opportunities for searches for phenomena beyond the Standard Model (BSM) using heavy-ions beams at high energies are outlined. Different BSM searches proposed in the last years in collisions of heavy ions, mostly at the Large Hadron Collider, are summarized. A few concrete selected cases are reviewed including searches for axion-like particles, anomalous τ electromagnetic moments, magnetic monopoles, and dark photons. Expectations for the achievable sensitivities of these searches in the coming years are given. Studies of CP violation in hot and dense QCD matter and connections to ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays physics are also mentioned.

Citation

d’Enterria, D., Drewes, M., Giammanco, A., Hajer, J., Bratkovskaya, E., Bruce, R., …Upreti, A. (2023). Opportunities for new physics searches with heavy ions at colliders. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 50(5), Article 050501. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/acc197

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 6, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Apr 11, 2023
• Publication Date: May 1, 2023
• Deposit Date: May 10, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Print ISSN: 0954-3899
• Electronic ISSN: 1361-6471
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 5
• Article Number: 050501
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/acc197
• Keywords: Particle physics, physics beyond the standard model, heavy-ion collisions, hadron colliders, axion-like particles, magnetic monopoles, dark photons, tau lepton moments
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/19779350
• Publisher URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6471/acc197