%0 Journal Article
%T Electric discharge in vacuum by minicharged particles
%A Xin Li
%A M. B. Voloshin
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1142/S0217732314500540
%X We discuss the possibility of a laboratory search for light minicharged particles carrying electric charge that is a small fraction $\epsilon$ of that of electron. We point out that the production of pairs of such particles in an electric field would result in a measurable discharge in vacuum of electrically charged objects. A realistic experiment may be sensitive to such particles at least down to $\epsilon \sim 10^{-8}$ if their mass is below $\sim 10^{-4}$eV.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0049v1