Dark Sector Glueballs at the LHC

Speaker: Austin Batz

Date: Monday, November 13, 2023

Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Location: 472 Willamette Hall

Abstract: Confining dark sectors are motivated by naturalness of the Higgs boson mass and dark matter. In the limit where the dark sector quarks are heavy and the lightest hadrons are bound states of dark gluons (i.e. glueballs), the process of hadron formation is qualitatively different from the Standard Model. This talk presents the results of a novel phenomenological model of glueball hadronization in pure-glue dark QCD inspired by the Lund string model. This enables us to make realistic predications for dark glueball phenomenology at the LHC for the first time, as demonstrated by an updated sensitivity estimate for the proposed MATHUSLA experiment and a characterization of regions of parameter space where different exotic jet signatures may appear.

Host: Pouya Asadi