New physics searches using ProtoDUNE and the CERN SPS accelerator

A bstract The exquisite capabilities of liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers make them ideal to search for weakly interacting particles in Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. Given their location at CERN the ProtoDUNE detectors may be exposed to a flux of such particles, produced in the collisions...

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Published in:The journal of high energy physics 2024-01, Vol.2024 (1), p.134-18, Article 134
Main Authors: Coloma, Pilar, López-Pavón, Jacobo, Molina-Bueno, Laura, Urrea, Salvador
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Argon
CERN
Charged particles
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Dark matter
Elementary Particles
Experiments
Leptons
Luminosity
Neutrinos
New Light Particles
Particle physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Protons
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Relativity Theory
Sensors
Standard model (particle physics)
Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos
String Theory
Synchrotrons
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Summary:A bstract The exquisite capabilities of liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers make them ideal to search for weakly interacting particles in Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. Given their location at CERN the ProtoDUNE detectors may be exposed to a flux of such particles, produced in the collisions of 400 GeV protons (extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator) on a target. Here we point out the interesting possibilities that such a setup offers to search for both long-lived unstable particles (Heavy Neutral Leptons, axion-like particles, etc) and stable particles (e.g. light dark matter, or millicharged particles). Our results show that, under conservative assumptions regarding the expected luminosity, this setup has the potential to improve over present bounds for some of the scenarios considered. This could be done within a short timescale, using facilities that are already in place at CERN, and without interfering with the experimental program in the North Area at CERN.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP01(2024)134