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SENSEI: Search for Millicharged Particles produced in the NuMI Beam

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arxiv 2305.04964 v2 pith:V4JJED5E submitted 2023-05-08 hep-ex physics.ins-det

Liron Barak , Itay M. Bloch , Ana M. Botti , Mariano Cababie , Gustavo Cancelo , Luke Chaplinsky , Michael Crisler , Alex Drlica-Wagner
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Rouven Essig Juan Estrada Erez Etzion Guillermo Fernandez Moroni Roni Harnik Stephen E. Holland Yaron Korn Zhen Liu Sravan Munagavalasa Aviv Orly Santiago E. Perez Ryan Plestid Dario Rodrigues Nathan A. Saffold Silvia Scorza Aman Singal Miguel Sofo Haro Leandro Stefanazzi Kelly Stifter Javier Tiffenberg Sho Uemura Tomer Volansky Tien-Tien Yu
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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 ultra-relativistic 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 MeV 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.

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  1. Constraints on millicharged particles from nuclear gamma-decays

    hep-ph 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Nuclear gamma cascades in reactors produce millicharged particle pairs, giving the strongest constraints on millicharge for masses between 0.7 and 2 MeV.

  2. Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV

    hep-ex 2025-06 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

    No millicharged particles were found in 124.7 fb^-1 of 13.6 TeV data; milliQan sets the strongest limits to date for masses >= 0.45 GeV and charges <= 0.24 e.

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    astro-ph.IM 2025-05 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    A mission design paper describing how a skipper-CCD CubeSat in low Earth orbit could search for strongly interacting sub-GeV dark matter and decaying dark matter X-rays.

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