Light scalars and dark photons in Borexino and LSND experiments

Pospelov, Maxim; Tsai, Yu -Dai

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.053

Title: Light scalars and dark photons in Borexino and LSND experiments

Journal Article · 31 August 2018 · Physics Letters. B

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2018.08.053 · OSTI ID:1490854

Pospelov, Maxim ^[1];

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Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC (Canada); Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Bringing an external radioactive source close to a large underground detector can significantly advance sensitivity not only to sterile neutrinos but also to “dark” gauge bosons and scalars. Here we address in detail the sensitivity reach of the Borexino-SOX configuration, which will see a powerful (a few PBq) ¹⁴⁴Ce–¹⁴⁴Pr source installed next to the Borexino detector, to light scalar particles coupled to the SM fermions. The mass reach of this configuration is limited by the energy release in the radioactive γ -cascade, which in this particular case is 2.2 MeV. Within that reach one year of operations will achieve an unprecedented sensitivity to coupling constants of such scalars, reaching down to g ~ 10^–7 levels and probing significant parts of parameter space not excluded by either beam dump constraints or astrophysical bounds. Should the current proton charge radius discrepancy be caused by the exchange of a MeV-mass scalar, then the simplest models will be decisively probed in this setup. In conclusion, we also update the beam dump constraints on light scalars and vectors, and in particular rule out dark photons with masses below 1 MeV, and couplings ϵ ≥ 10^–5.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

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

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1490854

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1706.00424; FERMILAB-PUB-17-689-A; 1602481

Journal Information:: Physics Letters. B, Vol. 785, Issue C; ISSN 0370-2693

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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