Looking for milli-charged particles with a new experiment at the LHC

Andrew Haas, Christopher S. Hill, Eder Izaguirre, Itay Yavin

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    Abstract

    We propose a new experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that offers a powerful and model-independent probe for milli-charged particles. This experiment could be sensitive to charges in the range 10-3e-10-1e for masses in the range 0.1-100 GeV, which is the least constrained part of the parameter space for milli-charged particles. This is a new window of opportunity for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC. The key new ingredients of the proposal are the identification of an optimal location for the detector and a telescopic/coincidence design that greatly reduces the background.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)117-120
    Number of pages4
    JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
    Volume746
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 1 2015

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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