Searching for muonic forces with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

The LHC copiously produces muons via different processes, and the muon sample will be large at the high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). In this work we propose to leverage this large muon sample and utilize the HL-LHC as a muon fixed-target experiment, with the ATLAS calorimeter as the target. We consider a novel analysis for the ATLAS detector, which takes advantage of the two independent muon momentum measurements by the inner detector and the muon system. We show that a comparison of the two measurements, before and after the calorimeters, can probe new force carriers that are coupled to muons and escape detection. The proposed analysis, based on muon samples from $W$ and $Z$ decays only, has a comparable reach to other proposals. In particular, it can explore the part of parameter-space that could explain the muon $g-2$ anomaly.

arXiv comment9 Pages, 4 figures

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