Ben Kaplan, "MilliQan: A New Milli-charged Particle Detector at the LHC"

Thursday 31 Mar 2016, 15:00 → 16:00 US/Eastern

Universe

I will present the status of the MilliQan experiment, a milli-charged particle detector we propose to install at LHC P5. The experiment would be commissioned during the next LHC shutdown in a service tunnel ~30m above the CMS interaction point, behind ~15m of rock. I will present the theoretical motivation for building the detector, its proposed experimental design, and the expected sensitivity to milli-charged particles.