Light dark matter searches with positrons

Battaglieri, M.

doi:10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00524-6

Light dark matter searches with positrons

Journal Article · 11 August 2021 · Eur.Phys.J.A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00524-6· OSTI ID:1832820

Battaglieri, M.

We discuss two complementary strategies to search for light dark matter (LDM) exploiting the positron beam possibly available in the future at Jefferson Laboratory. LDM is a new compelling hypothesis that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV “hidden sector” states, neutral under standard model interactions and interacting with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. Thanks to the high intensity and the high energy of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) beam, and relying on a novel LDM production mechanism via positron annihilation on target atomic electrons, the proposed strategies will allow us to explore new regions in the LDM parameters space, thoroughly probing the LDM hypothesis as well as more general hidden sector scenarios.

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Research Organization:: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1832820

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-21-347-T; arXiv:2105.04540; oai:inspirehep.net:1862634

Journal Information:: Eur.Phys.J.A, Vol. 57, Issue 8

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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