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Title: DAEδALUS and dark matter detection

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Theoretical Physics
  2. Perimeter Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (United States)
  3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Lab. for Nuclear Science; Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Among laboratory probes of dark matter, fixed-target neutrino experiments are particularly well suited to search for light weakly coupled dark sectors. Here in this paper, we show that the DAEδALUS source setup$$-$$an 800 MeV proton beam impinging on a target of graphite and copper$$-$$can improve the present LSND bound on dark photon models by an order of magnitude over much of the accessible parameter space for light dark matter when paired with a suitable neutrino detector such as LENA. Interestingly, both DAEδALUS and LSND are sensitive to dark matter produced from off-shell dark photons. We show for the first time that LSND can be competitive with searches for visible dark photon decays and that fixed-target experiments have sensitivity to a much larger range of heavy dark photon masses than previously thought. We review the mechanism for dark matter production and detection through a dark photon mediator, discuss the beam-off and beam-on backgrounds, and present the sensitivity in dark photon kinetic mixing for both the DAEδALUS/LENA setup and LSND in both the on- and off-shell regimes.

Research Organization:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-07CH11359; PHY-1066293; PHY-1205175; SC0012567; FG02-11ER-41741
OSTI ID:
1396019
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1180172
Report Number(s):
MIT-CTP-4591; arXiv:1411.1055; FERMILAB-PUB-14-608-ND; PRVDAQ; 1326096
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, Vol. 91, Issue 5; ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 63 works
Citation information provided by
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