Search by the SENSEI Experiment for Millicharged Particles Produced in the NuMI Beam

被引：3

作者：

Barak, Liron ^{[1
]}

Bloch, Itay M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Botti, Ana M. ^{[3
]}

Cababie, Mariano ^{[4
,5
]}

Cancelo, Gustavo ^{[4
]}

Cervantes-Vergara, Brenda A. ^{[4
]}

Chaplinsky, Luke ^{[6
,7
,8
]}

Crisler, Michael ^{[4
]}

Drlica-Wagner, Alex ^{[4
,9
,10
]}

Essig, Rouven ^{[7
]}

Estrada, Juan ^{[4
]}

Etzion, Erez ^{[1
]}

Moroni, Guillermo Fernandez ^{[4
]}

Holland, Stephen E. ^{[11
]}

Korn, Yaron ^{[1
]}

Lawson, Ian ^{[12
]}

Luoma, Steffon ^{[12
]}

Munagavalasa, Sravan ^{[7
,8
,9
,13
]}

Orly, Aviv ^{[1
]}

Perez, Santiago E. ^{[4
,5
]}

Rodrigues, Dario ^{[5
,14
]}

Saffold, Nathan A. ^{[5
]}

Scorza, Silvia ^{[15
]}

Singal, Aman ^{[6
,7
]}

Haro, Miguel Sofo ^{[4
,16
]}

Stefanazzi, Leandro ^{[4
]}

Stifter, Kelly ^{[4
]}

Tiffenberg, Javier ^{[4
]}

Uemura, Sho ^{[4
]}

Volansky, Tomer ^{[1
]}

Yu, Tien-Tien ^{[17
,18
]}

Harnik, Roni ^{[4
]}

Liu, Zhen ^{[19
]}

Plestid, Ryan ^{[20
]}

机构：

[1] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel

[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Theoret Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[3] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Theoret Phys Grp, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[4] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, POB 500, Batavia, IL 60510 USA

[5] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Dept Fis, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[6] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst Ctr Fundamental Interact, Dept Phys, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[7] SUNY Stong Brook, CN Yang Inst Theoret Phys, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

[8] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA

[9] Univ Chicago, Kavli Inst Cosmol Phys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[10] Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[11] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, One Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[12] SNOLAB, Lively, ON P3Y 1N2, Canada

[13] Univ Chicago, Enr Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[14] Univ Buenos Aires, CONICET, Inst Fis Buenos Aires IFIBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[15] Univ Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC,IN2P3, F-38000 Grenoble, France

[16] CNEA CONICET IB, Ctr Atom Bariloche, San Carlos De Bariloche, Argentina

[17] Univ Oregon, Dept Phys, Eugene, OR 97403 USA

[18] Univ Oregon, Inst Fundamental Sci, Eugene, OR 97403 USA

[19] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA

[20] CALTECH, Walter Burke Inst Theoret Phys, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2024年 / 133卷 / 07期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会; 以色列科学基金会; 加拿大创新基金会;

关键词：

QUANTUM CONTROL; PHYSICS; MIRROR; RANGE;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071801

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Millicharged particles appear in several extensions of the standard model, but have not yet been detected. These hypothetical particles could be produced by an intense proton beam striking a fixed target. We use data collected in 2020 by the SENSEI experiment in the MINOS cavern at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory to search for ultrarelativistic millicharged particles produced in collisions of protons in the NuMI beam with a fixed graphite target. The absence of any ionization events with 3 to 6 electrons in the SENSEI data allow us to place world-leading constraints on millicharged particles for masses between 30 to 380 MeV. This work also demonstrates the potential of utilizing low-threshold detectors to investigate new particles in beam-dump experiments, and motivates a future experiment designed specifically for this purpose.

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