TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking for milli-charged particles with a new experiment at the LHC
AU - Haas, Andrew
AU - Hill, Christopher S.
AU - Izaguirre, Eder
AU - Yavin, Itay
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, where this work started, for its hospitality. We also thank John Jaros, Gordan Krnjaic, Gary Steigman and Brian Shuve for useful discussions. We thank Lance Dixon and Daniel Maitre for help with Vrap . Research at Perimeter Institute is supported by the Government of Canada through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation . E.I. is partially supported by the Ministry of Research and Innovation – ERA (Early Research Awards) program. I.Y. is supported in part by funds from the NSERC of Canada.
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© 2015 The Authors.
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.04.062
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.04.062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940533363
VL - 746
SP - 117
EP - 120
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
ER -