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| Title | Dark matter search in a Beam-Dump eXperiment (BDX) at Jefferson Lab | ||||
| Abstract | Letter of Intent: LOI12-14-006 to PAC 42<br /><br />MeV-GeV dark matter (DM) is theoretically well motivated but remarkably unexplored. This Letter of Intent presents the MeV-GeV DM discovery potential for a 1 m3 segmented plastic scintillator detector placed downstream of the beam-dump at one of the high intensity JLab experimental Halls, receiving up to 1022 electrons-on-target (EOT) in a one-year period. This experiment (Beam-Dump eXperiment or BDX) is sensitive to DM-nucleon elastic scattering at the level of a thousand counts per year, with very low threshold recoil energies (?1 MeV), and limited only by reducible cosmogenic backgrounds. Sensitivity to DM-electron elastic scattering and/or inelastic DM would be below 10 counts per year after requiring all electromagnetic showers in the detector to exceed a few-hundred MeV, which dramatically reduces or altogether eliminates all backgrounds. Detailed Monte Carlo simulations are in progress to finalize the detector design and exper | ||||
| Author(s) | Marco Battaglieri, Andrea Celentano, Raffaella De Vita, Adalberto Izaguirre, G. Krnjaic, Elton Smith, Stepan Stepanyan, Andrea Bersani, Erica Fanchini, Stuart Fegan, Paolo Musico, Mikhail Osipenko, Marco Ripani, Elena Santopinto, Mauro Taiuti, Philip Schuster, Natalia Toro, Mark Macrae Dalton, Arne Freyberger, Francois-Xavier Girod-Gard, Valery Kubarovsky, Maurizio Ungaro, Giacinto De Cataldo, Raffaele De Leo, D. Di Bari, Luigi Lagamba, Eugenio Nappi, Roberto Perrino, Massimo Carpinelli, Valeria Sipala, S. Aiello, Vincenzo Bellini, Marzio De Napoli, Antonio Giusa, Francesco Mammoliti, E. Leonora, Nunzio Randazzo, Maria Leda Sperduto, Concetta Sutera, C. Ventura, Luca Barion, Giuseppe Ciullo, Marco Contalbrigo, Paolo Lenisa, Aram Movsisyan, F. Spizzo, M. Turisini, Fulvio De Persio, Evaristo Cisbani, Cristiano Fanelli, Franco Garibaldi, Franco Meddi, Guido Urciuoli, Enzo De Sanctis, Delia Hasch, Vincenzo Lucherini, Marco Mirazita, Rachel Montgomery, Silvia Pisano, Gabriele Simi, Annalisa D'Angelo, Luca Colaneri, Alessandro Rizzo, Carlo Schaerf, Irene Zonta, D. Calvo, Alessandra Filippi, Maurik Holtrop, R. Peremuzyan, Derek Glazier, David Ireland, Bryan McKinnon, Daria Sokhan, Bill Briscoe, Narbe Kalantarians, Lamiaa El Fassi, Larry Weinstein, P. Beltrame, A. Murphy, Daniel Watts, Lorenzo Zana, Ken Hicks, Lucilla Lanza, Andrei Afanasev | ||||
| Publication Date | June 2014 | ||||
| Document Type | Journal Article | ||||
| Primary Institution | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News | ||||
| Affiliation | Exp Nuclear Physics / Experimental Halls / Hall B | ||||
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| Proprietary? | No | ||||
| This publication conveys | Technical Science Results | ||||
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| Associated with an experiment | No | ||||
| Associated with EIC | No | ||||
| Supported by Jefferson Lab LDRD Funding | No |
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| Journal Name | Preprint to be distributed |
| Refereed | No |
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JLAB-PHY-14-1914.pdf
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| Dataset(s) | (none) |
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