Potential for probing three-body decays of Long-Lived Particles with MATHUSLA

• Main Authors: Alejandro Ibarra, Emiliano Molinaro, Stefan Vogl
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-02-01
• Series: Physics Letters B
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269318309390

Several extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of Long-Lived Neutral Particles (LLNPs) with masses in the multi-GeV range and decay lengths of O(100m) or longer. These particles could be copiously produced at the LHC, but the decay products cannot be detected with the ATLAS or CMS detectors. MATHUSLA is a proposed large-volume surface detector installed near ATLAS or CMS aimed to probe scenarios with LLNPs which offers good prospects for disentangling the physics underlying two-body decays into visible particles. In this work we focus on LLNP decays into three particles with one of them being invisible, which are relevant for scenarios with low scale supersymmetry breaking, feebly interacting dark matter or sterile neutrinos, among others. We analyze the MATHUSLA prospects to discriminate between two- and three-body LLNP decays, as well as the prospects for reconstructing the underlying model parameters.