USLUA annual meeting

Session

Invited Theorist

Dec 18, 2025, 3:30 PM

WRF Data Science Studio (Physics and Astronomy Tower (PAC))

17. Melting LHC detectors: a novel search for stopped long-lived particles

Samuel S. Y. Wong (University of Washington)

12/18/25, 3:30 PM

Particles at the TeV scale with lifetimes of a year or longer could have been abundantly produced at the LHC yet escaped detection because of backgrounds, and could still be trapped within detector materials. With gluinos in split-supersymmetry as a working example, we show that these trapped particles can be recovered from detector materials once prepared in liquid form, for example, by...