Speaker
Dr
David Milstead
(Stockholm University)
Description
The search for stable exotic hadrons is a promising way to observe new physics
processes at collider experiments. For example, R-hadrons are predicted in a number of
supersymmetry scenarios such as split-supersymmetry and gauge-mediated supersymmetry
breaking. The discovery potential for such particles can be enhanced or severely
suppressed by their interactions with matter as they pass through a detector. This
talk describes the predictions of a Geant-4-implemented Regge-based model for the
interactions in matter of stable hadrons containing a long-lived exotic parton which
can have a range of colour and electric charges. Comparisons are made with a generic
scattering model, and the implications of this work on future searches at the LHC are
discussed. Furthermore, previously obtained limits from collider experiments are
revisited and discussed in the light of this work.
Primary authors
Dr
David Milstead
(Stockholm University)
Dr
Rasmus Mackeprang
(CERN)
