TY - JOUR
T1 - Search by the SENSEI Experiment for Millicharged Particles Produced in the NuMI Beam
AU - (SENSEI Collaboration)
AU - Barak, Liron
AU - Bloch, Itay M.
AU - Botti, Ana M.
AU - Cababie, Mariano
AU - Cancelo, Gustavo
AU - Cervantes-Vergara, Brenda A.
AU - Chaplinsky, Luke
AU - Crisler, Michael
AU - Drlica-Wagner, Alex
AU - Essig, Rouven
AU - Estrada, Juan
AU - Etzion, Erez
AU - Moroni, Guillermo Fernandez
AU - Holland, Stephen E.
AU - Korn, Yaron
AU - Lawson, Ian
AU - Luoma, Steffon
AU - Munagavalasa, Sravan
AU - Orly, Aviv
AU - Perez, Santiago E.
AU - Rodrigues, Dario
AU - Saffold, Nathan A.
AU - Scorza, Silvia
AU - Singal, Aman
AU - Haro, Miguel Sofo
AU - Stefanazzi, Leandro
AU - Stifter, Kelly
AU - Tiffenberg, Javier
AU - Uemura, Sho
AU - Volansky, Tomer
AU - Yu, Tien Tien
AU - Harnik, Roni
AU - Liu, Zhen
AU - Plestid, Ryan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/8/16
Y1 - 2024/8/16
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85201293366
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.071801
M3 - Article
C2 - 39213562
AN - SCOPUS:85201293366
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 133
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 7
M1 - 071801
ER -