Material

In the Media

• “Into the Dark” (New Scientist, December 2018): popular science article about Hidden Sectors and new experimental proposals looking for them, including MATHUSLA (PDF link).
• “Nuclear Detectives Hunt Invisible Particles That Escaped the World’s Largest Atom Smasher” (Live Science, 22 May 2018): popular news article about the MATHUSLA detector proposal.
• Quanta Magazine, September 2017: In-depth popular science article about hidden sectors, long-lived particles and our MATHUSLA detector proposal. Also picked up by Wired Magazine.
• Hidden worlds of fundamental particles (June 2017): General physics audience article in Physics Today (Raman Sundrum, David Curtin).
• UMD JQI Podcast, July 2017: 11 minute podcast where David Curtin is interviewed about the MATHUSLA proposal.

Selected Publications

• Conceptual Design Report for the MATHUSLA Long-Lived Particle Detector near CMS. Conceptual Design Report updated on March 2025.

• The MATHUSLA Test Stand. This paper summarises the background measurements done with the detector installed on the surface above the ATLAS detector.

• 2018 Update to European Strategy for Particle Physics: MATHUSLA contribution. See also CERN-PBC-REPORT-2018-007 for the contribution of the Physics Beyond Colliders working group, which contains a cross-experimental comparison of simplified low-energy LLP models, as well as comments on MATHUSLA’s budget, which we project to lie below 100 MCHF.
• A Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: a dedicated displaced vertex detector above ATLAS or CMS (2018). Presented to the LHC Experimental Council in August 2018.
• Long-Lived Particles at the Energy Frontier: The MATHUSLA Physics Case (2018). This is a large white paper with ~100 authors explaining the physics case for long-lived particle searches at the LHC and the motivation for building MATHUSLA.
• New Detectors to Explore the Lifetime Frontier (Chou, Curtin, Lubatti 2016). This is the first paper where the MATHUSLA idea was proposed.