CODEX-b: Opening New Windows to the Long-Lived Particle Frontier at the LHC
hep-ex
/ Authors
Giulio Aielli, Juliette Alimena, Saul Balcarcel-Salazar, Eli Ben Haim, András Barnabás Burucs, Roberto Cardarelli, Matthew J. Charles, Xabier Cid Vidal, Albert De Roeck, Biplab Dey
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Silviu Dobrescu, Ozgur Durmus, Mohamed Elashri, Vladimir V. Gligorov, Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, Zarria Gray, Conor Henderson, Louis Henry, Philip Ilten, Daniel Johnson, Jacob Kautz, Simon Knapen, Bingxuan Liu, Yang Liu, Saul López Soliño, Pablo Eduardo Menéndez-Valdés Pérez, Titus Mombächer, Benjamin Nachman, David T. Northacker, Gabriel M. Nowak, Michele Papucci, Gabriella Pásztor
/ Abstract
This document is written as a contribution to the European Strategy of Particle Physics (ESPP) update. We offer a detailed overview of current developments and future directions for the CODEX-b detector, which aims to detect long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model. We summarize the scientific motivation for this detector, advances in our suite of simulation and detector optimization frameworks, and examine expected challenges, costs, and timelines in realizing the full detector. Additionally, we describe the technical specifications for the smaller-scale demonstrator detector (CODEX-$β$) we have installed in the LHCb experimental cavern.