Journal of High Energy Physics (Feb 2024)
Searching for millicharged particles with 1 kg of Skipper-CCDs using the NuMI beam at Fermilab
- Santiago Perez,
- Dario Rodrigues,
- Juan Estrada,
- Roni Harnik,
- Zhen Liu,
- Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara,
- Juan Carlos D’Olivo,
- Ryan D. Plestid,
- Javier Tiffenberg,
- Tien-Tien Yu,
- Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo,
- Fabricio Alcalde-Bessia,
- Nicolás Avalos,
- Oscar Baez,
- Daniel Baxter,
- Xavier Bertou,
- Carla Bonifazi,
- Ana Botti,
- Gustavo Cancelo,
- Nuria Castelló-Mor,
- Alvaro E. Chavarria,
- Claudio R. Chavez,
- Fernando Chierchie,
- Juan Manuel De Egea,
- Cyrus Dreyer,
- Alex Drlica-Wagner,
- Rouven Essig,
- Ezequiel Estrada,
- Erez Etzion,
- Paul Grylls,
- Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni,
- Marivi Fernández-Serra,
- Santiago Ferreyra,
- Stephen Holland,
- Agustín Lantero Barreda,
- Andrew Lathrop,
- Ian Lawson,
- Ben Loer,
- Steffon Luoma,
- Edgar Marrufo Villalpando,
- Mauricio Martinez Montero,
- Kellie McGuire,
- Jorge Molina,
- Sravan Munagavalasa,
- Danielle Norcini,
- Alexander Piers,
- Paolo Privitera,
- Nathan Saffold,
- Richard Saldanha,
- Aman Singal,
- Radomir Smida,
- Miguel Sofo-Haro,
- Diego Stalder,
- Leandro Stefanazzi,
- Michelangelo Traina,
- Yu-Dai Tsai,
- Sho Uemura,
- Pedro Ventura,
- Rocío Vilar Cortabitarte,
- Rachana Yajur
Affiliations
- Santiago Perez
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física
- Dario Rodrigues
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Física
- Juan Estrada
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Roni Harnik
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Zhen Liu
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
- Brenda A. Cervantes-Vergara
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Juan Carlos D’Olivo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Ryan D. Plestid
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
- Javier Tiffenberg
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Tien-Tien Yu
- Department of Physics and Institute for Fundamental Science, University of Oregon
- Alexis Aguilar-Arevalo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Fabricio Alcalde-Bessia
- Centro Atomico Bariloche
- Nicolás Avalos
- Centro Atomico Bariloche
- Oscar Baez
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Daniel Baxter
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Xavier Bertou
- Centro Atomico Bariloche
- Carla Bonifazi
- International Center of Advanced Studies and Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, ECyT-UNSAM and CONICET
- Ana Botti
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Gustavo Cancelo
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Nuria Castelló-Mor
- Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
- Alvaro E. Chavarria
- University of Washington
- Claudio R. Chavez
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Fernando Chierchie
- IIIE CONICET and DIEC Universidad Nacional del Sur
- Juan Manuel De Egea
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Cyrus Dreyer
- Stony Brook University
- Alex Drlica-Wagner
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Rouven Essig
- Stony Brook University
- Ezequiel Estrada
- Centro Atomico Bariloche
- Erez Etzion
- Tel Aviv University
- Paul Grylls
- SNOLAB
- Guillermo Fernandez-Moroni
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Marivi Fernández-Serra
- Stony Brook University
- Santiago Ferreyra
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Stephen Holland
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Agustín Lantero Barreda
- Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
- Andrew Lathrop
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Ian Lawson
- SNOLAB
- Ben Loer
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Steffon Luoma
- SNOLAB
- Edgar Marrufo Villalpando
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Mauricio Martinez Montero
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Kellie McGuire
- University of Washington
- Jorge Molina
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Sravan Munagavalasa
- University of Chicago
- Danielle Norcini
- University of Chicago
- Alexander Piers
- University of Washington
- Paolo Privitera
- University of Chicago
- Nathan Saffold
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Richard Saldanha
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Aman Singal
- Stony Brook University
- Radomir Smida
- University of Chicago
- Miguel Sofo-Haro
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola (CONICET) and Reactor Nuclear RA0 (CNEA)
- Diego Stalder
- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asunción
- Leandro Stefanazzi
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Michelangelo Traina
- University of Washington
- Yu-Dai Tsai
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Sho Uemura
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Pedro Ventura
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Rocío Vilar Cortabitarte
- Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria
- Rachana Yajur
- University of Chicago
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)072
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 2024,
no. 2
pp. 1 – 14
Abstract
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.
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