Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite

被引:5
作者
Alkhatib, I. [1 ]
Amaral, D. W. P. [2 ]
Aralis, T. [3 ]
Aramaki, T. [4 ]
Arnquist, I. J. [5 ]
Langroudy, I. Ataee [6 ,7 ]
Azadbakht, E. [6 ,7 ]
Banik, S. [8 ]
Barker, D. [9 ]
Bathurst, C. [10 ]
Bauer, D. A. [11 ]
Bezerra, L. V. S. [12 ,13 ]
Bhattacharyya, R. [6 ,7 ]
Bowles, M. A. [14 ]
Brink, P. L. [4 ]
Bunker, R. [5 ]
Cabrera, B. [15 ]
Calkins, R. [16 ]
Cameron, R. A. [4 ]
Cartaro, C. [4 ]
Cerdeno, D. G. [2 ,17 ]
Chang, Y. -Y. [3 ]
Chaudhuri, M. [8 ]
Chen, R. [18 ]
Chott, N. [14 ]
Cooley, J. [16 ]
Coombes, H. [10 ]
Corbett, J. [19 ]
Cushman, P. [9 ]
De Brienne, F. [20 ]
di Vacri, M. L. [5 ]
Diamond, M. D. [1 ]
Fascione, E. [13 ,19 ]
Figueroa-Feliciano, E. [18 ]
Fink, C. W. [21 ]
Fouts, K. [4 ]
Fritts, M. [9 ]
Gerbier, G. [19 ]
Germond, R. [13 ,19 ]
Ghaith, M. [19 ]
Golwala, S. R. [3 ]
Harris, H. R. [6 ,7 ,22 ]
Hines, B. A. [23 ]
Hollister, M. I. [11 ]
Hong, Z. [18 ]
Hoppe, E. W. [5 ]
Hsu, L. [11 ]
Huber, M. E. [23 ,24 ]
Iyer, V. [8 ]
Jardin, D. [16 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Phys, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[2] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, Durham DH1 3LE, England
[3] CALTECH, Div Phys Math & Astron, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[4] Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, SLAC Natl Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Pk, CA 94025 USA
[5] Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[6] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[7] Texas A&M Univ, Mitchell Inst Fundamental Phys & Astron, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[8] Natl Inst Sci Educ & Res, Sch Phys Sci, HBNI, Jatni 752050, India
[9] Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[10] Univ Florida, Dept Phys, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[11] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[12] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[13] TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3, Canada
[14] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Phys, Rapid City, SD 57701 USA
[15] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[16] Southern Methodist Univ, Dept Phys, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[17] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor, UAM, CSIC, Madrid 28049, Spain
[18] Northwestern Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[19] Queens Univ, Dept Phys, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
[20] Univ Montreal, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3C 3J7, Canada
[21] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[22] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
[23] Univ Colorado, Dept Phys, Denver, CO 80217 USA
[24] Univ Colorado, Dept Elect Engn, Denver, CO 80217 USA
[25] Univ Hamburg, Inst Expt Phys, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[26] Univ South Dakota, Dept Phys, Vermillion, SD 57069 USA
[27] Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[28] SNOLAB, Creighton Mine 9,1039 Reg Rd 24, Sudbury, ON P3Y 1N2, Canada
[29] Laurentian Univ, Dept Phys, 935 Ramsey Lake Rd, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
[30] Santa Clara Univ, Dept Phys, Santa Clara, CA 95053 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
FRACTIONALLY CHARGED-PARTICLES; MILLICHARGED PARTICLES; SEARCH; MATTER; LIMITS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.081802
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search low ionization threshold experiment (CDMSlite) achieved efficient detection of very small recoil energies in its germanium target, resulting in sensitivity to lightly ionizing particles (LIPs) in a previously unexplored region of charge, mass, and velocity parameter space. We report first direct-detection limits calculated using the optimum interval method on the vertical intensity of cosmogenically produced LIPs with an electric charge smaller than e=(3 x 10(5)), as well as the strongest limits for charge <= e/160, with a minimum vertical intensity of 1.36 x 10(-7) cm(-2) s(-1) sr(-1) at charge e=160. These results apply over a wide range of LIP masses (5 MeV=c(2) to 100 TeV=c(2)) and cover a wide range of beta gamma values (0.1-106), thus excluding nonrelativistic LIPs with beta gamma as small as 0.1 for the first time.
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