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FORMOSA: Looking Forward to Millicharged Dark Sectors

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arxiv 2010.07941 v1 pith:NLWL6IQN submitted 2020-10-15 hep-ph astro-ph.COhep-ex

Saeid Foroughi-Abari , Felix Kling , Yu-Dai Tsai This is my paper
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We identify potentially the world's most sensitive location to search for millicharged particles in the 10 MeV to 100 GeV mass range: the forward region at the LHC. We propose constructing a scintillator-based experiment, FORward MicrOcharge SeArch (FORMOSA) in this location, and estimate the corresponding sensitivity projection. We show that FORMOSA can discover millicharged particles in a large and unexplored parameter space, and study strongly interacting dark matter that cannot be detected by ground-based direct-detection experiments. The newly proposed LHC Forward Physics Facility (FPF) provides an ideal structure to host the full FORMOSA experiment.

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