2020/10/15 by Saeid Foroughi-Abari, Felix Kling, Yu-Dai Tsai · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace engineering #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Detector #Engineering #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Optics #Parameter space #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #Scintillator #Statistics #astro-ph.CO #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.035014
published as Phys. Rev. D 104, 035014 (2021) · 9 pages, 3 figures. Para uma FORMOSA aventura!
arxiv created 2020/10/15 · openalex created_date 2020/10/22 · openalex publication_date 2021/08/16 · arxiv updated 2021/08/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We identify what may be 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. FORMOSA can discover millicharged particles in a large and unexplored region of parameter space, including millicharged strongly interacting dark matter (mSIDM) candidates that cannot be probed by ground-based direct-detection experiments. The newly proposed LHC Forward Physics Facility (FPF) provides an ideal structure to host the full FORMOSA experiment.