A Pure-Glue Hidden Valley I. States and Decays

Abstract

It is possible that the standard model is coupled, through new massive charged or colored particles, to a hidden sector whose low energy dynamics is controlled by a pure Yang-Mills theory, with no light matter. Such a sector would have numerous metastable "hidden glueballs" built from the hidden gluons. These states would decay to particles of the standard model. We consider the phenomenology of this scenario, and find formulas for the lifetimes and branching ratios of the most important of these states. The dominant decays are to two standard model gauge bosons, or by radiative decays with photon emission, leading to jet- and photon-rich signals.

34 pages, 4 figures

References in corpus (32)

• Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory
• The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity
• Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity
• The glueball spectrum from an anisotropic lattice study
• Echoes of a Hidden Valley at Hadron Colliders
• The Twin Higgs: Natural Electroweak Breaking from Mirror Symmetry
• Toward Realistic Intersecting D-Brane Models
• Glueball Spectrum and Matrix Elements on Anisotropic Lattices
• LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter
• Discovering the Higgs Through Highly-Displaced Vertices
• The Physics of Glueballs
• Phenomenology of Hidden Valleys at Hadron Colliders
• Folded Supersymmetry and the LEP Paradox
• Heavy Dark Matter Through the Higgs Portal
• Multi-Component Dark Matter
• Glueball Spectrum for QCD from AdS Supergravity Duality
• Glueball Mass Spectrum From Supergravity
• Macroscopic Strings and "Quirks" at Colliders
• Glueballs vs. Gluinoballs: Fluctuation Spectra in Non-AdS/Non-CFT
• The Relic Abundance of Long-lived Heavy Colored Particles
• Possible Effects of a Hidden Valley on Supersymmetric Phenomenology
• Why Unparticle Models with Mass Gaps are Examples of Hidden Valleys
• Rho properties in a hot meson gas
• On the Phenomenology of Hidden Valleys with Heavy Flavor
• I-odd sector of the Klebanov-Strassler theory
• Sizes of Lightest Glueballs in SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory
• Gravity Multiplet on KS and BB Backgrounds
• On Normal Modes of a Warped Throat
• Heavy quark induced effective action for gauge fields in the SU(N_c) x U(1) model and the low-energy structure of heavy quark current correlators
• Exotica and the Confining Flux
• Off-shell effects in dilepton production from hot interacting mesons
• Heavy Meson Decays into Light Resonances

Cited by in corpus (88)

• A facility to Search for Hidden Particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case
• Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson
• Spin determination of single-produced resonances at hadron colliders
• Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider
• Dark Matter, Millicharges, Axion and Scalar Particles, Gauge Bosons, and Other New Physics with LDMX
• Stealth Supersymmetry
• Review of strongly-coupled composite dark matter models and lattice simulations
• Quirky Composite Dark Matter
• Collider Searches for Long-Lived Particles Beyond the Standard Model
• Discovering Uncolored Naturalness in Exotic Higgs Decays
• Hidden SU(N) Glueball Dark Matter
• Exploring the Early Universe with Gaia and THEIA
• A Visible QCD Axion from an Enlarged Color Group
• Pure-glue hidden valleys through the Higgs portal
• Quirky Explanations for the Diphoton Excess
• SIMPle Dark Matter: Self-Interactions and keV Lines
• Discerning Secluded Sector gauge structures
• Dark SU(N) glueball stars on fluid branes
• Triggering Soft Bombs at the LHC
• Non-Abelian Dark Forces and the Relic Densities of Dark Glueballs
• Dark Matter as a weakly coupled Dark Baryon
• The Fraternal WIMP Miracle
• The extended minimal geometric deformation of SU($N$) dark glueball condensates
• Perturbative benchmark models for a dark shower search program
• The Cosmology of Composite Inelastic Dark Matter
• A Quirky Probe of Neutral Naturalness
• The Vector-like Twin Higgs
• Exotic Quarks in Twin Higgs Models
• Shedding Light on Diphoton Resonances
• Cosmological Bounds on Non-Abelian Dark Forces
• LHC Signatures of a Minimal Supersymmetric Hidden Valley
• Dark Matter Through the Neutrino Portal
• WIMPless Dark Matter from Non-Abelian Hidden Sectors with Anomaly-Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking
• Diboson Excess from a New Strong Force
• Searching for Displaced Higgs Decays
• Viable Twin Cosmology from Neutrino Mixing
• Glueball scattering cross section in lattice SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
• Gluequark Dark Matter
• Data-driven Model-independent Searches for Long-lived Particles at the LHC
• Towards a No-Lose Theorem for Naturalness
• Experimental Considerations Motivated by the Diphoton Excess at the LHC
• Cosmic strings from pure Yang-Mills theory
• Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter
• A Cosmic Selection Rule for Glueball Dark Matter Relic Density
• Jet Substructure from Dark Sector Showers
• A Theory of Dark Pions
• Dark sector searches with the CMS experiment
• Gravitational Waves From SU(N) Glueball Dark Matter
• I-odd sector of the Klebanov-Strassler theory
• Search for long-lived particles decaying in the CMS endcap muon detectors in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• Simplified Models for Displaced Dark Matter Signatures
• Collider Searches for Dark Matter through the Higgs Lens
• A Sommerfeld Toolbox for Colored Dark Sectors
• Dark Matter, Dark Radiation and Gravitational Waves from Mirror Higgs Parity
• Cosmic F- and D-strings from pure Yang-Mills theory
• Glueballs in a Thermal Squeezeout Model
• GUTzilla Dark Matter
• Searching for Elusive Dark Sectors with Terrestrial and Celestial Observations
• Quirks in supersymmetry with gauge coupling unification
• Hypercharged Naturalness
• Resurrecting the Fraternal Twin WIMP Miracle
• Searching in CMS Open Data for Dimuon Resonances with Substantial Transverse Momentum
• Randall-Sundrum and Strings
• Ballistic Dark Matter oscillates above $\Lambda$CDM
• An Exceptional G(2) Extension of the Standard Model from the Correspondence with Cayley-Dickson Algebras Automorphism Groups
• On I-even Singlet Glueballs in the Klebanov-Strassler Theory
• Displaced Vertices from Hidden Glue
• Portal Effective Theories: A framework for the model independent description of light hidden sector interactions
• Diphoton Signals from Colorless Hidden Quarkonia
• Higgs Boson Decays to Dark Photons through the Vectorized Lepton Portal
• SUSY Higgs Mass and Collider Signals with a Hidden Valley
• Search for light long-lived particles decaying to displaced jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
• Dark Matter from Dark Glueball Dominance
• A Simple-Minded Unitarity Constraint and an Application to Unparticles
• LHC Implications of the WIMP Miracle and Grand Unification
• Explaining the 750 GeV diphoton excess with a colored scalar charged under a new confining gauge interaction
• Data Driven Search in the Displaced $b\bar{b}$ Pair Channel for a Higgs Boson Decaying to Long-Lived Neutral Particles
• Neutral Naturalness with Bifundamental Gluinos
• Constraints on 750 GeV colorless Q-onia from running couplings
• Spectrum of Large N Glueballs: Holography vs Lattice
• Quirk SUEP
• Metastable Vacua in Warped Throats at Non-Isolated Singularities
• Thermal evolution of dark matter and gravitational-wave production in the early universe from a symplectic glueball model
• Composite heavy axion-like dark matter
• Review of Neutral Naturalness
• Hyper Stealth Dark Matter and Long-Lived Particles
• Axion-Assisted Electroweak Baryogenesis
• Theory, phenomenology, and experimental avenues for dark showers: a Snowmass 2021 report