Interactions of Heavy Hadrons using Regge Phenomenology and the Quark Gluon String Model

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The search for stable heavy exotic hadrons is a promising way to observe new physics processes at collider experiments.

• The discovery potential for such particles can be enhanced or suppressed by their interactions with detector material.
• This paper describes a model for the interactions in matter of stable hadrons containing an exotic quark of charges $\pm {1/3}e$ or $\pm {2/3}e$ using Regge phenomenology and the Quark Gluon String Model.
• The influence of such interactions on searches at the LHC is also discussed.