Displaced Vertices from Hidden Glue

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We consider the phenomenology of glueball production and decay in theories with hidden glue.

• We focus on the case of folded supersymmetry (FSUSY) , where there is an unbroken $SU(3)$ gauge theory in the absence of light matter, leading to the formation of glueballs.
• We study their production through the annihilation of folded squarks into hidden gluons at the LHC, and model their fragmentation into glueballs.
• We obtain the distribution of displaced vertices, which is directly determined by the folded squark mass scale.