@article{57c4e20fbd7149c6b6fdd21844863b1b,
title = "Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC with the milliQan detector",
abstract = "We report on the expected sensitivity of dedicated scintillator-based detectors at the LHC for elementary particles with charges much smaller than the electron charge. The dataset provided by a prototype scintillator-based detector is used to characterize the performance of the detector and provide an accurate background projection. Detector designs, including a novel slab detector configuration, are considered for the data taking period of the LHC to start in 2022 (Run 3) and for the high luminosity LHC. With the Run 3 dataset, the existence of new particles with masses between 10 MeV and 45 GeV could be excluded at 95% confidence level for charges between 0.003 e and 0.3 e, depending on their mass. With the high luminosity LHC dataset, the expected limits would reach between 10 MeV and 80 GeV for charges between 0.0018 e and 0.3 e, depending on their mass.",
author = "A. Ball and J. Brooke and C. Campagnari and M. Carrigan and M. Citron and {De Roeck}, A. and M. Ezeldine and B. Francis and M. Gastal and M. Ghimire and J. Goldstein and F. Golf and A. Haas and R. Heller and Hill, {C. S.} and L. Lavezzo and R. Loos and S. Lowette and B. Manley and B. Marsh and Miller, {D. W.} and B. Odegard and R. Schmitz and F. Setti and H. Shakeshaft and D. Stuart and M. Swiatlowski and J. Yoo and H. Zaraket",
note = "Funding Information: We would particularly like to thank Harvey L. Karp for his generous funding of the detector through the Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the CMS Collaboration for supporting this endeavor by providing invaluable logistical and technical assistance. We thank Eder Izaguirre and Itay Yavin for their enduring contributions to this idea and Yu-Dai Tsai for valuable comments on this manuscript. Finally, we acknowledge the following funding agencies who support the investigators that carried out this research in various capacities: FWO (Belgium) under the Excellence of Science EOS be.h Project No. 30820817; Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA); Lebanese University (Lebanon). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2021",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.104.032002",
language = "English",
volume = "104",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "3",
}