Searching for an Axion-like Particle at the Large Hadron Collider

Abstract

Axion-like particles are an important part of the spectrum of anomalous gauge theories involving modified mechanisms of cancellation of the gauge anomalies. Among these are intersecting brane models, which are characterized by the presence of one physical axion. We overview a recent study of their supersymmetric construction and some LHC studies of the productions rates for a gauged axion.

Comments: 4 pages 1 Fig. Presented at IFAE 2009, Bari, 15-17 April 2009, Italy