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Probing millicharged particles with NA64 experiment at CERN

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-01 v2

Abstract

In this note we estimate the sensitivity of the NA64 experiment to millicharged particles (χ\chi). That experimental facility is dedicated to the searching for dark sector particles in missing energy events at the CERN SPS. We consider missing momentum signatures in the \simeq 100 GeV electron and muon beams and show that the later one allows to obtain more stringent bounds on the millicharge QχQ_{\chi}, which for the χ\chi masses 100100~MeV mχ500\leq m_{\chi} \leq 500~MeV at the level Qχ/eO(103)O(102) Q_{\chi}/e\lesssim O(10^{-3}) - O(10^{-2}).

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@article{arxiv.1810.06856,
  title  = {Probing millicharged particles with NA64 experiment at CERN},
  author = {S. N. Gninenko and D. V. Kirpichnikov and N. V. Krasnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06856},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages, 3 figures, version accepted for publication in PRD

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