Speaker
Jack Setford
(University of Sussex)
Description
Quirks - particles charged under a QCD-like confining force - are an interesting extension to the Standard Model. If the confinement scale is below ~100 MeV, pair-produced quirks exhibit extremely unusual dynamics. Current track reconstruction algorithms at the LHC are mostly blind to the 'quirky' tracks these particles leave in the detector, so a new search strategy is proposed that offers good prospects for detection across a broad region of the parameter space.
Author
Jack Setford
(University of Sussex)
