학술논문
Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
Document Type
Working Paper
Author
Perez, Santiago; Rodrigues, Dario; Estrada, Juan; Harnik, Roni; Liu, Zhen; Cervantes-Vergara, Brenda A.; D'Olivo, Juan Carlos; Plestid, Ryan D.; Tiffenberg, Javier; Yu, Tien-Tien; Aguilar-Arevalo, Alexis; Alcalde-Bessia, Fabricio; Avalos, Nicolas; Baez, Oscar; Baxter, Daniel; Bertou, Xavier; Bonifazi, Carla; Botti, Ana; Cancelo, Gustavo; Castelló-Mor, Nuria; Chavarria, Alvaro E.; Chavez, Claudio R.; Chierchie, Fernando; De Egea, Juan Manuel; Dreyer, Cyrus; Drlica-Wagner, Alex; Essig, Rouven; Estrada, Ezequiel; Etzion, Erez; Grylls, Paul; Fernandez-Moroni, Guillermo; Fernández-Serra, Marivi; Ferreyra, Santiago; Holland, Stephen; Barreda, Agustín Lantero; Lathrop, Andrew; Lawson, Ian; Loer, Ben; Luoma, Steffon; Villalpando, Edgar Marrufo; Montero, Mauricio Martinez; McGuire, Kellie; Molina, Jorge; Munagavalasa, Sravan; Norcini, Danielle; Piers, Alexander; Privitera, Paolo; Saffold, Nathan; Saldanha, Richard; Singal, Aman; Smida, Radomir; Sofo-Haro, Miguel; Stalder, Diego; Stefanazzi, Leandro; Traina, Michelangelo; Tsai, Yu-Dai; Uemura, Sho; Ventura, Pedro; Cortabitarte, Rocío Vilar; Yajur, Rachana
Source
Subject
Language
Abstract
Oscura is a planned light-dark matter search experiment using Skipper-CCDs with a total active mass of 10 kg. As part of the detector development, the collaboration plans to build the Oscura Integration Test (OIT), an engineering test with 10% of the total mass. Here we discuss the early science opportunities with the OIT to search for millicharged particles (mCPs) using the NuMI beam at Fermilab. mCPs would be produced at low energies through photon-mediated processes from decays of scalar, pseudoscalar, and vector mesons, or direct Drell-Yan productions. Estimates show that the OIT would be a world-leading probe for mCPs in the MeV mass range.
Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures
Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures