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.
Primary authors
Mr
Albert de roeck
(CERN)
Gabriel Magill
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
