Quirks are theoretical heavy particles which are interesting because they exhibit unique behaviour and because their energies (100GeV-TeV) can be produced by particle collider experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A quirk and its antiparticle experience an attractive force over macroscopic distances (mm-10m) mediated by a finite-width string of "infracolor" flux. This string has complicated motion which must be numerically modeled in the case where the quirks are subject to energy losses due to interactions with matter in the detector. Numerical simulation of the combined quirk and string motion will be implemented. This will be used to determine the range of validity of the "straight string" approximation, and to simulate exotic events in which the string dynamics plays an important role. The eventual goal is to combine this simulation with a realistic simulation of particle energy loss in matter, implemented using the GEANT library. This will be used to assess the reach of collider experiments in discovering quirks.
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