Physics Motivation for a Pilot Dark Matter Search at Jefferson Laboratory
arXiv:1403.6826 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.90.014052
Abstract
It has recently been demonstrated that a program of parasitic electron-beam fixed-target experiments would have powerful discovery potential for dark matter and other new weakly-coupled particles in the MeV-GeV mass range. The first stage of this program can be realized at Jefferson Laboratory using an existing plastic-scintillator detector downstream of the Hall D electron beam dump. This paper studies the physics potential of such an experiment and highlights its unique sensitivity to inelastic "exciting" dark matter and leptophilic dark matter scenarios. The first of these is kinematically inaccessible at traditional direct detection experiments and features potential "smoking gun" low-background signatures.
11 pages, 7 figures
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