利用LUX-ZEPLIN实验首次约束大气毫电荷粒子
高能物理 - 实验
2025-06-19 v4
摘要
我们报告了利用LUX-ZEPLIN实验首次科学运行期间收集的数据，对宇宙线质子大气相互作用产生的毫电荷粒子（mCPs）的搜寻结果。本研究考虑了两种mCPs产生过程——介子衰变和质子轫致辐射。该搜寻利用了液氙（LXe）时间投影室（TPC）独有的新型信号特征，使灵敏度覆盖质量范围为10至1000 MeV/c、电荷为电子电荷e的分数在0.001至0.02之间的mCPs。在60 live days曝光量和5.5吨有效质量的条件下，未观测到显著的超出本底信号。这是首次对大气mCPs的实验搜寻，也是首次利用地下LXe实验对mCPs进行搜寻。
引用
@article{arxiv.2412.04854,
title = {First constraint for atmospheric millicharged particles with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment},
author = {J. Aalbers and D. S. Akerib and A. K. Al Musalhi and F. Alder and C. S. Amarasinghe and A. Ames and T. J. Anderson and N. Angelides and H. M. Araújo and J. E. Armstrong and M. Arthurs and A. Baker and S. Balashov and J. Bang and J. W. Bargemann and E. E. Barillier and D. Bauer and K. Beattie and T. Benson and A. Bhatti and A. Biekert and T. P. Biesiadzinski and H. J. Birch and E. Bishop and G. M. Blockinger and B. Boxer and C. A. J. Brew and P. Brás and S. Burdin and M. Buuck and M. C. Carmona-Benitez and M. Carter and A. Chawla and H. Chen and J. J. Cherwinka and Y. T. Chin and N. I. Chott and M. V. Converse and R. Coronel and A. Cottle and G. Cox and D. Curran and C. E. Dahl and I. Darlington and S. Dave and A. David and J. Delgaudio and S. Dey and L. de Viveiros and L. Di Felice and C. Ding and J. E. Y. Dobson and E. Druszkiewicz and S. Dubey and S. R. Eriksen and A. Fan and S. Fayer and N. M. Fearon and N. Fieldhouse and S. Fiorucci and H. Flaecher and E. D. Fraser and T. M. A. Fruth and R. J. Gaitskell and A. Geffre and J. Genovesi and C. Ghag and A. Ghosh and R. Gibbons and S. Gokhale and J. Green and M. G. D. van der Grinten and J. J. Haiston and C. R. Hall and T. J. Hall and S. Han and E. Hartigan-O'Connor and S. J. Haselschwardt and M. A. Hernandez and S. A. Hertel and G. Heuermann and G. J. Homenides and M. Horn and D. Q. Huang and D. Hunt and E. Jacquet and R. S. James and J. Johnson and A. C. Kaboth and A. C. Kamaha and Meghna K. K. and D. Khaitan and A. Khazov and I. Khurana and J. Kim and Y. D. Kim and J. Kingston and R. Kirk and D. Kodroff and L. Korley and E. V. Korolkova and H. Kraus and S. Kravitz and L. Kreczko and V. A. Kudryavtsev and C. Lawes and D. S. Leonard and K. T. Lesko and C. Levy and J. Lin and A. Lindote and W. H. Lippincott and M. I. Lopes and W. Lorenzon and C. Lu and S. Luitz and P. A. Majewski and A. Manalaysay and R. L. Mannino and C. Maupin and M. E. McCarthy and G. McDowell and D. N. McKinsey and J. McLaughlin and J. B. McLaughlin and R. McMonigle and E. Mizrachi and A. Monte and M. E. Monzani and J. D. Morales Mendoza and E. Morrison and B. J. Mount and M. Murdy and A. St. J. Murphy and A. Naylor and H. N. Nelson and F. Neves and A. Nguyen and C. L. O'Brien and I. Olcina and K. C. Oliver-Mallory and J. Orpwood and K. Y Oyulmaz and K. J. Palladino and J. Palmer and N. J. Pannifer and N. Parveen and S. J. Patton and B. Penning and G. Pereira and E. Perry and T. Pershing and A. Piepke and Y. Qie and J. Reichenbacher and C. A. Rhyne and A. Richards and Q. Riffard and G. R. C. Rischbieter and E. Ritchey and H. S. Riyat and R. Rosero and T. Rushton and D. Rynders and D. Santone and A. B. M. R. Sazzad and R. W. Schnee and G. Sehr and B. Shafer and S. Shaw and T. Shutt and J. J. Silk and C. Silva and G. Sinev and J. Siniscalco and R. Smith and V. N. Solovov and P. Sorensen and J. Soria and I. Stancu and A. Stevens and K. Stifter and B. Suerfu and T. J. Sumner and M. Szydagis and D. R. Tiedt and M. Timalsina and Z. Tong and D. R. Tovey and J. Tranter and M. Trask and M. Tripathi and A. Usón and A. Vacheret and A. C. Vaitkus and O. Valentino and V. Velan and A. Wang and J. J. Wang and Y. Wang and J. R. Watson and L. Weeldreyer and T. J. Whitis and K. Wild and M. Williams and W. J. Wisniewski and L. Wolf and F. L. H. Wolfs and S. Woodford and D. Woodward and C. J. Wright and Q. Xia and J. Xu and Y. Xu and M. Yeh and D. Yeum and W. Zha and E. A. Zweig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04854},
year = {2025}
}