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Title: DAEδALUS and dark matter detection

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [3]
  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)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1396019
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1180172
Report Number(s):
MIT-CTP-4591; arXiv:1411.1055; FERMILAB-PUB-14-608-ND
Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998; PRVDAQ; 1326096
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; PHY-1066293; PHY-1205175; SC0012567; FG02-11ER-41741
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 91; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Kahn, Yonatan, Krnjaic, Gordan, Thaler, Jesse, and Toups, Matthew. DAEδALUS and dark matter detection. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055006.
Kahn, Yonatan, Krnjaic, Gordan, Thaler, Jesse, & Toups, Matthew. DAEδALUS and dark matter detection. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055006
Kahn, Yonatan, Krnjaic, Gordan, Thaler, Jesse, and Toups, Matthew. Thu . "DAEδALUS and dark matter detection". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1396019.
@article{osti_1396019,
title = {DAEδALUS and dark matter detection},
author = {Kahn, Yonatan and Krnjaic, Gordan and Thaler, Jesse and Toups, Matthew},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.91.055006},
journal = {Physical Review. D, Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology},
number = 5,
volume = 91,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}

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