Speaker
Gabriel Magill
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Description
The experiments presently at the LHC have only a limited sensitivity to possible exotic
particles which carry only a fraction of the the electron charge. Such particles can follow
from extensions beyond the Standard Model with new U(1) groups.
A recent proposal was made to install a dedicated experiment consisting of large blocks
of scintillators in the underground caverns, behind a thick concrete wall.
This detector would be sensitive to charges down to a few times 10^-3 Q_e and to
millicharge particles with a mass up to about 100 GeV, based on the HL-LHC data statistics.
Such a detector is now being planned to be installed in the next few years and will be presented.
Authors
Mr
Albert de roeck
(CERN)
Gabriel Magill
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
