Regular Article - Experimental Physics

Electromagnetic dipole moments of charged baryons with bent crystals at the LHC

¹ INFN Sezione di Ferrara and Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
² INFN Sezione di Roma and “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
³ IFIC, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
⁴ INFN Sezione di Milano and Università di Milano, Milan, Italy
⁵ CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

^* e-mail: nicola.neri@mi.infn.it

Received: 30 August 2017
Accepted: 21 November 2017
Published online: 5 December 2017

Abstract

We propose a unique program of measurements of electric and magnetic dipole moments of charm, beauty and strange charged baryons at the LHC, based on the phenomenon of spin precession of channeled particles in bent crystals. Studies of crystal channeling and spin precession of positively- and negatively-charged particles are presented, along with feasibility studies and expected sensitivities for the proposed experiment using a layout based on the LHCb detector.