Probing Metastability at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper explores how LHC experiments can provide insights into the metastable supersymmetric state of the universe and its potential to support atomic and molecular structures in a susy background.

Contribution

It investigates the experimental signatures and implications of metastable susy breaking states for future LHC observations.

Findings

LHC data can help distinguish metastable susy states from the true ground state.

Certain experimental signatures may indicate the universe's metastable susy phase.

The potential for atoms and molecules in a susy background depends on specific properties of the metastable state.

Abstract

Current attempts to understand supersymmetry (susy) breaking are focused on the idea that we are not in the ground state of the universe but, instead, in a metastable state that will ultimately decay to an exactly susy ground state. It is interesting to ask how experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will shed light on the properties of this future supersymmetric universe. In particular we ask how we can determine whether this final state has the possibility of supporting atoms and molecules in a susy background.