Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the milliQan detector

A. Ball; J. Brooke; C. Campagnari; M. Carrigan; M. Citron; A De Roeck; M. Ezzeldine; B. Francis; M. Gastal; M. Ghimire; J. Goldstein; F. Golf; A. Haas; R. Heller; C. S. Hill; L. Lavezzo; R. Loos; S. Lowette; B. Manley; B. Marsh; D.W. Miller; B. Odegard; R. Schmitz; F. Setti; H. Shakeshaft; D. Stuart; M. Swiatlowski; H. Zaraket; J.  Yoo

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032002

Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the milliQan detector

A. Ball, J. Brooke, C. Campagnari, M. Carrigan, M. Citron, A De Roeck, M. Ezzeldine, B. Francis, M. Gastal, M. Ghimire, J. Goldstein, F. Golf, A. Haas, R. Heller, C. S. Hill, L. Lavezzo, R. Loos, S. Lowette, B. Manley, B. MarshD.W. Miller, B. Odegard, R. Schmitz, F. Setti, H. Shakeshaft, D. Stuart, M. Swiatlowski, H. Zaraket, J. Yoo

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We report on the expected sensitivity of dedicated scintillator-based detectors at the LHC for elementary particles with charges much smaller than the electron charge. The dataset provided by a prototype scintillator-based detector is used to characterise the performance of the detector and provide an accurate background projection. Detector designs, including a novel slab detector configuration, are considered for the data taking period of the LHC to start in 2022 (Run 3) and for the high luminosity LHC. With the Run 3 dataset, the existence of new particles with masses between 10 MeV and 45 GeV could be excluded at 95% confidence level for charges between 0.003e and 0.3e, depending on their mass. With the high luminosity LHC dataset, the expected limits would reach between 10 MeV and 80 GeV for charges between 0.0018e and 0.3e, depending on their mass

Original language	English
Article number	032002
Number of pages	7
Journal	Phys. Rev. D
Volume	104
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032002
Publication status	Published - 13 Aug 2021

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We would particularly like to thank Harvey L. Karp for his generous funding of the detector through the Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the CMS Collaboration for supporting this endeavor by providing invaluable logistical and technical assistance. We thank Eder Izaguirre and Itay Yavin for their enduring contributions to this idea and Yu-Dai Tsai for valuable comments on this manuscript. Finally, we acknowledge the following funding agencies who support the investigators that carried out this research in various capacities: FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science EOS be.h Project No. 30820817; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA); Lebanese University (Lebanon).

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Ball, A., Brooke, J., Campagnari, C., Carrigan, M., Citron, M., Roeck, A. D., Ezzeldine, M., Francis, B., Gastal, M., Ghimire, M., Goldstein, J., Golf, F., Haas, A., Heller, R., Hill, C. S., Lavezzo, L., Loos, R., Lowette, S., Manley, B., ... Yoo, J. (2021). Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the milliQan detector. Phys. Rev. D, 104(3), Article 032002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032002

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Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the milliQan detector

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