Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Physics Letters B
Pub Date
2-2018
Volume
777
First Page
246
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Abstract
The milliQan Collaboration has proposed to search for millicharged particles by looking for very weakly ionizing tracks in a detector installed in a cavern near the CMS experiment at the LHC. We note that another form of exotica can also yield weakly ionizing tracks. If a heavy neutrino has an electric dipole moment (EDM), then the milliQan experiment may be sensitive to it as well. In particular, writing the general dimension-5 operator for an EDM with a scale of a TeV and a one-loop factor, one finds a potential EDM as high as a few times 10(-17) e-cm, and models exist where it is an order of magnitude higher. Redoing the Bethe calculation of ionization energy loss for an EDM, it is found that the milliQan detector is sensitive to EDMs as small as 10(-17) e-cm. Using the production cross-section and analyzing the acceptance of the milliQan detector, we find the expected 95% exclusion and 3 sigma sensitivity over the range of neutrino masses from 5-1000 GeV for integrated luminosities of 300 and 3000 fb(-1) at the LHC. (c) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Recommended Citation
Sher, Marc and Stevens, Justin R., Detecting a heavy neutrino electric dipole moment at the LHC (2018). Physics Letters B, 777, 246-249.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.12.022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.12.022
