Displaced Vertices from Hidden Glue

TL;DR

This paper explores the production and decay of glueballs in hidden gauge theories, focusing on folded supersymmetry, and models their displaced vertices at the LHC, providing a framework applicable to similar theories.

Contribution

It introduces a method to model hidden glueball fragmentation and displaced vertex distributions in theories with hidden gluons, specifically applied to folded supersymmetry.

Findings

Distribution of displaced vertices depends on folded squark mass scale

Glueball production via folded squark annihilation at LHC is modeled

Procedure can be generalized to other hidden gauge theories

Abstract

We consider the phenomenology of glueball production and decay in theories with hidden glue. We focus on the case of folded supersymmetry (FSUSY) , where there is an unbroken $SU(3)$ gauge theory in the absence of light matter, leading to the formation of glueballs. We study their production through the annihilation of folded squarks into hidden gluons at the LHC, and model their fragmentation into glueballs. We obtain the distribution of displaced vertices, which is directly determined by the folded squark mass scale. Although here we specifically apply it to FSUSY, the procedure to model the hidden glue fragmentation into glueballs can be generalized to other similar theories.