Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with level-1 trigger scouting data from proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV

A.SnigirevJr.The CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140498

Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with level-1 trigger scouting data from proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV

A.SnigirevJr.The CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

A search for heavy long-lived charged particles at the LHC is presented. Particles traversing the CMS muon detector across several bunch crossings are searched for using a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.7 fb⁻¹. This is the first search using the novel level-1 trigger scouting data set collected without any trigger selection, allowing correlations between bunch crossings to be analyzed. The results are interpreted as upper limits on the cross sections of several benchmark processes with pair production of heavy long-lived charged particles. Upper limits on the fiducial cross section of a heavy long-lived charged particle with p_T>500GeV and | η | < 0.83 are also set in different ranges of β=v/c. This analysis is a proof of concept for the level-1 trigger data scouting system and complements existing searches for heavy long-lived charged particles by extending the sensitivity to lower β values.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	140498
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	878
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2026.140498
State	Published - Jul 2026

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

CMS
Data scouting
HSCP
Level-1 trigger
Long-lived

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Search for heavy long-lived charged particles with level-1 trigger scouting data from proton-proton collisions at s=13.6TeV

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