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A study of the sensitivity of the CLIC_ILD detector model for massive long-lived particles produced in the decay of the Higgs boson is presented, using a data sample of e+e− collisions at \( \sqrt{\textrm{s}} \) = 350 GeV and \( \sqrt{\textrm{s}} \) = 3 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 ab−1 and 3 ab−1, respectively. The sensitivity range covers long-lived particle lifetimes from 1 to 300 ps, masses between 25 and 50 GeV/c2, and a parent Higgs mass of 126 GeV/c2. Sensitivities to the production cross-section as a function of the long-lived-particle mass and lifetime are determined.
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Kucharczyk, M., Goncerz, M. Search for exotic decays of the Higgs boson into long-lived particles with jet pairs in the final state at CLIC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2023)131
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Keywords
- Beyond Standard Model
- e +-e − Experiments
- Exotics
- Jet Physics