Speaker
Paul Swallow
(University of Birmingham (GB))
Description
The High Luminosity LHC will be a tremendous opportunity to search for long-lived particles (LLPs) from an extended hidden/dark sector, feebly connected to the known SM sector. Such LLP searches will require special detectors, placed far away from the proton-proton collision point and shielded against SM backgrounds. The CODEX-b detector, to be placed behind a thick shielding wall inside the LHCb cavern, around 25m from the LHCb interaction point, provides a novel solution. On the journey to the construction of the full detector, a demonstrator (CODEX-𝛽) is foreseen for installation and operation during LHC Run 3. This talk will present the latest developments for CODEX-b and CODEX-𝛽.
Author
Juliette Alimena
(CERN)
