MiniBooNE-DM: a dark matter search in a proton beam dump
Conference
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OSTI ID:1556974
In a dedicated run where protons from the Fermilab Booster were delivered directly to the steel beam dump of the Booster Neutrino Beamline (BNB), the MiniBooNE detector was used to search for the production of sub-GeV dark matter particles via vector-boson mediators. The signal searched for was the elastic scattering of dark matter particles off nucleons in the detector mineral oil, with neutrinos being an irreducible background. A review of the experiment, its analysis methods, its results and future perspectives are summarized, demonstrating that beam dump experiments provide a novel and promising approach to dark matter searches. This contribution was written for the TAUP 2017 proceedings.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- Contributing Organization:
- MiniBooNE DM
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 1556974
- Report Number(s):
- arXiv:1907.04901; C17-07-24; FERMILAB-CONF-17-699-ND; 1743571
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 07/24-07/28/2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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