activity
20242026
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7 papers

hep-ph2026

Rich Phenomenology from Simple Ingredients: A Review of Confining Dark Sectors

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Graham D. Kribs

We review theories with confining dark sectors and their implications for dark matter, cosmology, phenomenology, and unsolved Standard Model puzzles. Models with new strongly-coupl…

hep-ph2026

Stopping Dark Mesons in Their Tracks with Long-Lived Particle and Resonant Signatures

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Elias Bernreuther +3

Dark sectors with confining gauge interactions can provide both simple dark matter candidates and striking signals at colliders. We recast Large Hadron Collider searches for two di…

hep-ph2026

On the Run from the Dark Side of the Muon

Pouya Asadi, Austin Batz, Samuel Homiller +1

We present an analysis strategy for probing physics beyond the Standard Model via modifications to the parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a muon beam, which measurably alter t…

hep-ph2026

Enhanced Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei Fluxes with Dark Matter Annihilation into SUEPs

Mattia Di Mauro, Caleb Gemmell, Austin Batz +4

Standard-Model (SM) hadronic parton showers initiated by secondary cosmic-ray production or dark matter (DM) annihilations robustly predict very low antinuclei yields and a strong…

physics.ins-det2025

MATHUSLA: An External Long-Lived Particle Detector to Maximize the Discovery Potential of the HL-LHC

Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70

We present the current status of the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle (LLP) detector at the HL-LHC, covering the design, f…

physics.ins-det2025

Conceptual Design Report for the MATHUSLA Long-Lived Particle Detector near CMS

Branden Aitken, Cristiano Alpigiani, Juan Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez +70

We present the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the MATHUSLA (MAssive Timing Hodoscope for Ultra-Stable neutraL pArticles) long-lived particle detector at the HL-LHC, covering th…