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Description
For the last few decades, High Energy Physics has been a victim of its own early success. Despite numerous theoretical arguments why it cannot be the final explanation for the interactions of fundamental particles, the Standard Model of particle physics continues to withstand intense scrutiny of the most determined experimental physicists. One promising way to search for signs of new physics is at the Large Hadron Collider, probing energies comparable to those present very shortly after the Big Bang.
We often assume that new particles produced in particle collisions would decay immediately. But what if new particles had long lifetimes and traveled centimetres —even kilometres — before transforming into something we could detect? In this talk, I will discuss the challenges and strategies we use in searches for signs of long-lived new particle signatures at the LHC. I will highlight what we have achieved experimentally thus far and what we can expect in the future.
