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Limits on Millicharged Matter from Beam-Dump Experiments
Physical Review D (1987)
  • E Golowich
  • RW Robinett
Abstract

It has been proposed by Goldberg and Hall that the dark matter in galactic halos may be a type of shadow matter which interacts electromagnetically with ordinary matter (via a mixing effect) with effective charge ||Q||=2ɛe where ɛ<<1. We put constraints on the mass (ms) and effective charge (i.e., ɛ) of such particles by examining their possible production and detection in high-statistics proton beam-dump experiments. We find, for example, that ɛ<~2×10-2 for 1<~ms<~200 MeV.

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Publication Date
January 1, 1987
Citation Information
E Golowich and RW Robinett. "Limits on Millicharged Matter from Beam-Dump Experiments" Physical Review D Vol. 35 Iss. 1 (1987)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eugene_golowich/74/