How to Find a Hidden World at the Large Hadron Collider

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential for discovering Hidden Worlds at the Large Hadron Collider, highlighting unique signatures and implications for particle physics research beyond the Standard Model.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of Hidden World signatures at the LHC, emphasizing their implications and experimental accessibility in current and future collider runs.

Findings

Suppressed Higgs boson production due to Hidden Worlds

Detectable heavy Higgs boson signatures at trans-TeV energies

Higgs decays to four fermions via light exotic gauge bosons

Abstract

I discuss how the Large Hadron Collider era should broaden our view of particle physics research, and apply this thinking to the case of Hidden Worlds. I focus on one of the simplest representative cases of a Hidden World, and detail the rich implications it has for LHC physics, including universal suppression of Higgs boson production, trans-TeV heavy Higgs boson signatures, heavy-to-light Higgs boson decays, weakly coupled exotic gauge bosons, and Higgs boson decays to four fermions via light exotic gauge bosons. Some signatures may be accessible in the very early stages of collider operation, whereas others motivate a later high-lumonosity upgrade.