@article{f00d24a886cc4a82a351669ed97ecabc,
title = "Improved Limits on Millicharged Particles Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment at Fermilab",
abstract = "A search for millicharged particles, a simple extension of the standard model, has been performed with the ArgoNeuT detector exposed to the Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam at Fermilab. The ArgoNeuT liquid argon time projection chamber detector enables a search for millicharged particles through the detection of visible electron recoils. We search for an event signature with two soft hits (MeV-scale energy depositions) aligned with the upstream target. For an exposure of the detector of 1.0×1020 protons on target, one candidate event has been observed, compatible with the expected background. This search is sensitive to millicharged particles with charges between 10-3e and 10-1e and with masses in the range from 0.1 to 3 GeV. This measurement provides leading constraints on millicharged particles in this large unexplored parameter space region.",
author = "{(ArgoNeuT Collaboration)} and R. Acciarri and C. Adams and J. Asaadi and B. Baller and T. Bolton and C. Bromberg and F. Cavanna and D. Edmunds and Fitzpatrick, {R. S.} and B. Fleming and R. Harnik and C. James and I. Lepetic and Littlejohn, {B. R.} and Z. Liu and X. Luo and O. Palamara and G. Scanavini and M. Soderberg and J. Spitz and Szelc, {A. M.} and W. Wu and T. Yang",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Paddy Fox for discussions. This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. We wish to acknowledge the support of Fermilab, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation in ArgoNeuT{\textquoteright}s construction, operation, and data analysis. We also wish to acknowledge the support of the Neutrino Physics Center (NPC) Scholar program at Fermilab, ARCS Foundation, Inc. and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation Royal Society. Z. L. is supported in part by the NSF under Grant No. PHY1620074 and by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Funded by SCOAP ",
year = "2020",
month = apr,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.131801",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "124",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "13",
}