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Title: Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX

Abstract

The proposed LDMX experiment would provide roughly a meter-long region of instrumented tracking and calorimetry that acts as a beam stop for multi-GeV electrons in which each electron is tagged and its evolution measured. This would offer an unprecedented opportunity to access both collider-invisible and ultra-short lifetime decays of new particles produced in electron (or muon)-nuclear fixed-target collisions. In this paper, we show that the missing momentum channel and displaced decay signals in such an experiment could provide world-leading sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter, millicharged particles, and visibly or invisibly decaying axions, scalars, dark photons, and a range of other new physics scenarios.

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1504299
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1468411
Report Number(s):
arXiv:1807.01730; FERMILAB-PUB-18-310-A; SLAC-PUB-1729
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 075001
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; AC02-07CH11359
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review D
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 99 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Krnjaic, Gordan, Schuster, Philip, and Toro, Natalia. Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075001.
Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Krnjaic, Gordan, Schuster, Philip, & Toro, Natalia. Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075001
Berlin, Asher, Blinov, Nikita, Krnjaic, Gordan, Schuster, Philip, and Toro, Natalia. Mon . "Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075001.
@article{osti_1504299,
title = {Dark matter, millicharges, axion and scalar particles, gauge bosons, and other new physics with LDMX},
author = {Berlin, Asher and Blinov, Nikita and Krnjaic, Gordan and Schuster, Philip and Toro, Natalia},
abstractNote = {The proposed LDMX experiment would provide roughly a meter-long region of instrumented tracking and calorimetry that acts as a beam stop for multi-GeV electrons in which each electron is tagged and its evolution measured. This would offer an unprecedented opportunity to access both collider-invisible and ultra-short lifetime decays of new particles produced in electron (or muon)-nuclear fixed-target collisions. In this paper, we show that the missing momentum channel and displaced decay signals in such an experiment could provide world-leading sensitivity to sub-GeV dark matter, millicharged particles, and visibly or invisibly decaying axions, scalars, dark photons, and a range of other new physics scenarios.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075001},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 7,
volume = 99,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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