Search for Long-lived Particles at Future Lepton Colliders Using Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract: Long-lived particles (LLPs) provide an unambiguous signal for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). They have a distinct detector signature, with decay lengths corresponding to lifetimes of around nanoseconds or longer. Lepton colliders allow LLP searches to be conducted in a clean environment, and such searches can reach their full physics potential when combined with ML techniques. In the case of LLPs searches from Higgs decay in $e^+e^-\to ZH$, we show that the LLP signal efficiency can be improved up to 99% with an LLP mass around 50 GeV and a lifetime of approximately $1$ nanosecond, using deep neural network based approaches. The signal sensitivity for the branching ratio of Higgs decaying into LLPs reaches $1.2 \times 10^{-6}$ with a statistics of $4 \times 10^{6}$ Higgs.