• DOI:10.1088/1361-6471/AB7FF7
• Corpus ID: 118905497

New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

@article{Bruce2018NewPS,
  title={New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider},
  author={Roderik Bruce and David d’Enterria and Albert De Roeck and Marco Drewes and Glennys R. Farrar and Andrea Giammanco and Oliver Gould and Jan Hajer and Lucian Harland–Lang and Jan Heisig and John M Jowett and Sonia Kabana and Georgios K Krintiras and Michael Korsmeier and Michele Lucente and Guilherme Milhano and Swagata Mukherjee and Jeremi Niedziela and V. A. Okorokov and Arttu Rajantie and Michaela Schaumann},
  journal={Journal of Physics G},
  year={2018},
  volume={47},
  pages={060501}
}

• R. Bruce, D. d’Enterria, +18 authors M. Schaumann
• Published 18 December 2018
• Physics
• Journal of Physics G

This document summarises proposed searches for new physics accessible in the heavy-ion mode at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), both through hadronic and ultraperipheral $\gamma\gamma$ interactions, and that have a competitive or, even, unique discovery potential compared to standard proton-proton collision studies. Illustrative examples include searches for new particles -- such as axion-like pseudoscalars, radions, magnetic monopoles, new long-lived particles, dark photons, and sexaquarks as dark matter candidates -- as well as new interactions, such as non-linear or non-commutative QED extensions. We argue that such interesting possibilities constitute a well-justified scientific motivation, complementing standard quark-gluon-plasma physics studies, to continue running with ions at the LHC after the Run-4, i.e. beyond 2030, including light and intermediate-mass ion species, accumulating nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosities in the accessible fb$^{-1}$ range per month.