1 November 2018 to 19 December 2018
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New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

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1m
Strong interactions (perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, DIS, heavy ions)

Description

This document summarizes proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the LHC, both through hadronic and ultraperipheral $\gamma\gamma$ interactions, and that have a competitive or, even, unique discovery potential compared to standard proton-proton collision studies. Illustrative examples include searches of new particles --- such as axion-like pseudoscalars, radions, magnetic monopoles, new long-lived particles, dark photons, and sexaquarks as dark matter candidates --- as well as new interactions, such as non-linear or non-commutative QED extensions. We argue that such interesting possibilities constitute a well-justified scientific motivation, complementing standard quark-gluon-plasma physics studies, to continue running with ions at the LHC after the Run-4, i.e. beyond 2030, including light and intermediate-mass species, accumulating nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosities in the accessible fb$^{-1}$ range per month.

Primary authors

David d'Enterria (CERN) Roderik Bruce (CERN) Albert De Roeck (CERN) Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Glennys Farrar (NYU) Andrea Giammanco (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Dr Oliver Gould (University of Helsinki) Jan Hajer (Université catholique de Louvain) Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford) Dr Jan Heisig (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)) John Jowett (CERN) Sonja Kabana (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)) Mr Georgios Krintiras (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE)) Michael Korsmeier (University of Torino) Dr Michele Lucente (CP3-UCL) Dr Guilherme Milhano (LIP-Lisbon & CERN TH) Ms Swagata Mukherjee (Rheinisch Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE)) Jeremi Niedziela (CERN) Vitaly Okorokov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU)) Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College (GB)) Michaela Schaumann (CERN)

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