Prospects for detecting charged long-lived BSM particles at MoEDAL-MAPP experiment: A mini-review

TL;DR

This mini-review evaluates MoEDAL-MAPP's potential to detect long-lived charged particles from BSM theories, highlighting its unique passive detection method and complementarity to ATLAS and CMS despite lower luminosity.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of MoEDAL-MAPP's sensitivity to long-lived charged particles across various BSM models, emphasizing its unique detection advantages.

Findings

MoEDAL-MAPP can detect slow-moving, multiply charged particles.

Its background-free detection offers a unique advantage over other experiments.

Complementarity with ATLAS and CMS enhances overall search coverage.

Abstract

The search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider is expanding to include unconventional signatures such as long-lived particles. This mini-review assesses the prospects for detecting electrically charged long-lived particles using the MoEDAL-MAPP experiment. We synthesize findings from recent studies that evaluate sensitivity to supersymmetric models, radiative neutrino mass scenarios, and generic multiply charged objects. A key component of this review is the comparative analysis of MoEDAL's reach against the general-purpose ATLAS and CMS experiments. We conclude that while MoEDAL is constrained by lower integrated luminosity, its passive, background-free detection methodology offers a unique advantage. Specifically, the experiment provides complementarity to the major detectors, particularly for signals involving slow-moving particles and stable states with intermediate electric charges.