First Limit on the Direct Detection of Lightly Ionizing Particles for Electric Charge as Low as e/1000 with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR

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作者
Alvis, S. I. [1 ,2 ]
Arnquist, I. J. [3 ]
Avignone, F. T., III [4 ,5 ]
Barabash, A. S. [6 ]
Barton, C. J. [7 ]
Bertrand, F. E. [5 ]
Brudanin, V. [8 ]
Busch, M. [9 ,10 ]
Buuck, M. [1 ,2 ]
Caldwell, T. S. [10 ,11 ]
Chan, Y-D. [12 ]
Christofferson, C. D. [13 ]
Chu, P. -H. [14 ]
Cuesta, C. [1 ,2 ,23 ]
Detwiler, J. A. [1 ,2 ]
Dunagan, C. [13 ]
Efremenko, Yu. [5 ,15 ]
Ejiri, H. [16 ]
Elliott, S. R. [14 ]
Gilliss, T. [10 ,11 ]
Giovanetti, G. K. [17 ]
Green, M. P. [5 ,10 ,18 ]
Gruszko, J. [19 ]
Guinn, I. S. [1 ,2 ]
Guiseppe, V. E. [4 ]
Haufe, C. R. [10 ,11 ]
Hehn, L. [12 ]
Henning, R. [10 ,11 ]
Hoppe, E. W. [3 ]
Howe, M. A. [10 ,11 ]
Konovalov, S. I. [6 ]
Kouzes, R. T. [3 ]
Lopez, A. M. [15 ]
Martin, R. D. [20 ]
Massarczyk, R. [14 ]
Meijer, S. J. [10 ,11 ]
Mertens, S. [21 ,22 ]
Myslik, J. [12 ]
O'Shaughnessy, C. [10 ,11 ,14 ]
Othman, G. [10 ,11 ]
Pettus, W. [1 ,2 ]
Poon, A. W. P. [12 ]
Radford, D. C. [5 ]
Rager, J. [10 ,11 ]
Reine, A. L. [10 ,11 ]
Rielage, K. [14 ]
Robertson, R. G. H. [1 ,2 ]
Ruof, N. W. [1 ,2 ]
Shanks, B. [5 ]
Shirchenko, M. [8 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Ctr Expt Nucl Phys & Astrophys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[3] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99354 USA
[4] Univ South Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[5] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA
[6] Natl Res Ctr, Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Kurchatov Inst, Moscow 117218, Russia
[7] Univ South Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
[8] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna 141980, Russia
[9] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[10] Triangle Univ Nucl Lab, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[11] Univ N Carolina, Dept Phys & Astron, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA
[12] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Nucl Sci Div, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[13] Soth Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[14] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[15] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys & Astron, Knoxville, TN 37916 USA
[16] Osaka Univ, Res Ctr Nucl Phys, Ibaraki, Osaka 5670047, Japan
[17] Princeton Univ, Dept Phys, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[18] North Carolina State Univ, Dept Phys, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[19] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Queens Univ, Dept Phys Engn Phys & Astron, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
[21] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[22] Tech Univ Munich, Phys Dept, D-85748 Munich, Germany
[23] CIEMAT, Ctr Invest Energeticas Medioambientales & Technol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
MILLICHARGED PARTICLES; E(+)E(-) COLLISIONS; FRACTIONAL CHARGE; SEARCH; IDENTIFICATION; QUANTIZATION; CONSTRAINTS; FRAGMENTS; FRAMEWORK; MATTER;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.211804
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR is an ultralow-background experiment searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay in Ge-76. The heavily shielded array of germanium detectors, placed nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, also allows searches for new exotic physics. Free, relativistic, lightly ionizing particles with an electrical charge less than e are forbidden by the standard model but predicted by some of its extensions. If such particles exist, they might be detected in the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR by searching for multiple-detector events with individual-detector energy depositions down to 1 keV. This search is background-free, and no candidate events have been found in 285 days of data taking. New direct-detection limits are set for the flux of lightly ionizing particles for charges as low as e/1000.
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