Searches for decays of new particles in the DUNE Multi-Purpose near Detector

Berryman, Jeffrey M.; de Gouvea, Andre; Fox, Patrick J.; Kayser, Boris Jules; Kelly, Kevin James; Raaf, Jennifer Lynne

doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2020)174

Title: Searches for decays of new particles in the DUNE Multi-Purpose near Detector

Journal Article · 27 February 2020 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2020)174 · OSTI ID:1592148

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Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States); Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

One proposed component of the upcoming Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) near detector complex is a multi-purpose, magnetized, gaseous argon time projection chamber: the Multi-Purpose Detector (MPD). We explore the new-physics potential of the MPD, focusing on scenarios in which the MPD is significantly more sensitive to new physics than a liquid argon detector, specifically searches for semi-long-lived particles that are produced in/near the beam target and decay in the MPD. The specific physics possibilities studied are searches for dark vector bosons mixing kinetically with the Standard Model hypercharge group, leptophilic vector bosons, dark scalars mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson, and heavy neutral leptons that mix with the Standard Model neutrinos. We demonstrate that the MPD can extend existing bounds in most of these scenarios. We illustrate how the ability of the MPD to measure the momentum and charge of the final state particles leads to these bounds.

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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); National Science Foundation (NSF); Heising-Simons Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; SC0018327; SC0020262; PHY-1630782; 2017-228; SC0010143

OSTI ID:: 1592148

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1912.07622; FERMILAB-PUB-19-607-ND-T; NUHEP-TH/19-16; oai:inspirehep.net:1771355; TRN: US2101846

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2020, Issue 2; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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