Sensitivity to millicharged particles
FORMOSA will have world leading sensitivity to a wide range of millicharged particle masses and charges. Discovering such a phenomenon would be a huge leap in our ability to probe and understand dark matter. It would provide a “portal” into the dark sector of particles. The FORMOSA detector provides the best opportunity to achieve sensitivity to the production of such particles at the LHC. Using a high-performance scintillator like CeBr allows the reach to be extended even further.
Presentations (selected)
- FORMOSA, Juan Tafoya, LLP14, 2024
- FORMOSA: looking forward to millicharged particles at the LHC, Jacob Steenis, ICHEP, 2024
- FORMOSA, Juan Tafoya, 7th FPF workshop, 2024
- Update from FORMOSA, Matthew Citron, 6th FPF workshop, 2023
- FORMOSA: Millicharged Particles in the LHC Forward Region, Jacob Steenis, BOOST 2023
- Strong & Robust Searches for Millicharged Particles (mCP) with LHC FPF & FORMOSA, Yu-Dai Tsai, P5 Townhall meeting 2023
- FORMOSA, Matthew Citron, 5th FPF workshop, 2022
Papers
- FORMOSA: Looking Forward to Millicharged Dark Sectors, Saeid Foroughi-Abari, Felix Kling, Yu-Dai Tsai, Phys. Rev. D 104, 035014 (2021)
Related mcp papers
- Cosmic Millicharge Background and Reheating Probes, Xucheng Gan, Yu-Dai Tsai, August 2023
- Sensitivity to millicharged particles in future proton-proton collisions at the LHC, milliQan collaboration, Phys. Rev. D 104 (2021) 032002, Aug 2021
- Search for millicharged particles in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV, Phys. Rev. D 102, 032002 (2020), May 2020
FPF papers
- Update of Facility Technical Studies for the FPF, CERN-PBC-Notes-2024-004, July 2024
- Forward Physics Facility, prepared for the US DOE/NSF HEPAP Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), submitted to P5, April 2023
- Update on the FPF Facility Technical Studies, CERN-PBC-NOTE 2023-002, March 2023
- The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC, J. Phys. G 50 (2023) 030501 (extracted plots can be found here)
- The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential, Phys. Rept. 968 (2022)
More FPF papers here