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Constraining Quirky Tracks with Conventional Searches

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arxiv 1703.00912 v1 pith:F7R7JTDO submitted 2017-03-02 hep-ph hep-ex

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Quirks are particles that are both charged under the standard model and under a new confining group. The quirk setup assumes there are no light flavors of the new confining group so that while the theory is in a confining phase, the distance between quirk-antiquirk pairs can be macroscopic. In this work, we reinterpret existing collider limits, those from monojet and heavy stable charged particle searches, as limits on quirks. Additionally, we propose a new search in the magnetic-field-less CMS data for quirks and estimate the sensitivity. We focus on the region where the confinement scale is roughly between 1 eV and 100 eV and find mass constraints in the TeV-range, depending on the quirk's quantum numbers.

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  1. First Search for Quirks at the LHC with FASER

    hep-ex 2026-07 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

    FASER's first search for quirks found no candidates and excluded quirk masses up to ~179 GeV for infracolor confinement scales between 300 eV and 100 keV.

  2. Searching for Quirks at LHCb

    hep-ph 2026-01 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A proposed LHCb VELO search for back-to-back, planar hit patterns could make LHCb the first experiment sensitive to quirks with hidden confinement scale around 1000 eV.

  3. Letter of Intent: The Forward Physics Facility

    hep-ex 2025-10 unverdicted novelty 5.0 of 10

    Proposes construction of the Forward Physics Facility at the HL-LHC with four complementary detectors to exploit forward neutrinos and new-particle fluxes for neutrino, QCD, astroparticle, and dark-matter measurements.

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