Projected MATHUSLA, HL-LHC, and FCC-hh forward detector sensitivities probe Higgs-mediated freeze-in dark matter across parent masses up to about 10 TeV.
On the LHC sensitivity for non-thermalised hidden sectors
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We show under rather general assumptions that hidden sectors that never reach thermal equilibrium in the early Universe are also inaccessible for the LHC. In other words, any particle that can be produced at the LHC must either have been in thermal equilibrium with the Standard Model at some point or must be produced via the decays of another hidden sector particle that has been in thermal equilibrium. To reach this conclusion, we parametrise the cross section connecting the Standard Model to the hidden sector in a very general way and use methods from linear programming to calculate the largest possible number of LHC events compatible with the requirement of non-thermalisation. We find that even the HL-LHC cannot possibly produce more than a few events with energy above 10 GeV involving states from a non-thermalised hidden sector.
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Probing Dark Matter freeze-in with long-lived particle signatures: MATHUSLA, HL-LHC and FCC-hh
Projected MATHUSLA, HL-LHC, and FCC-hh forward detector sensitivities probe Higgs-mediated freeze-in dark matter across parent masses up to about 10 TeV.