Electrically Charged Squirk Signals at Colliders

Scalar quirks (“squirks”) are particles with interesting dynamics that appear in

several motivated extensions of the Standard Model. Most of these models include at least

two flavors of squirks with nearly degenerate masses. Squirky bound states (“squirkonium”)

may be copiously produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, current collider

bounds on their mass may be as weak as a few hundred GeV. I show how these bounds change with larger

mass splitting between squirk flavors. Additionally, I explore a new method that significantly

increases the discovery potential of squirkonium at the LHC.