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most citedDark matter search in missing energy events with NA64

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25 papers

hep-ex2024

Shedding light on Dark Sectors with high-energy muons at the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, B. Banto Oberhauser +54

A search for Dark Sectors is performed using the unique M2 beam line at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. New particles () could be produced in the bremsstrahlung-like reaction…

hep-ex2024

50 GeV in, nothing out: a sensitive probe of invisible and decays with NA64h

Yu. M. Andreev, A. Antonov, M. A. Ayala Torres +54

We present the first results from a proof-of-concept search for dark sectors via invisible decays of pseudoscalar and mesons in the NA64h experiment at the CERN SPS. Our n…

hep-ex2024

First constraints on the explanation of the muon anomaly from NA64- at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev, A. Antonov, D. Banerjee +58

The inclusion of an additional gauge symmetry would release the tension between the measured and the predicted value of the anomalous muon magnetic moment: this pa…

hep-ph2024

Development of the fully Geant4 compatible package for the simulation of Dark Matter in fixed target experiments

B. Banto Oberhauser, P. Bisio, A. Celentano +12

The search for new comparably light (well below the electroweak scale) feebly interacting particles is an exciting possibility to explain some mysterious phenomena in physics, amon…

hep-ex2024★ 2 cited

Exploration of the Muon and Light Dark Matter explanations in NA64 with the CERN SPS high energy muon beam

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, B. Banto Oberhauser +54

We report on a search for a new () vector boson performed at the NA64 experiment employing a high energy muon beam and a missing energy-momentum technique. Muons from…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

Probing Light Dark Matter with positron beams at NA64

Yu. M. Andreev, A. Antonov, D. Banerjee +63

We present the results of a missing-energy search for Light Dark Matter which has a new interaction with ordinary matter transmitted by a vector boson, called dark photon $A^\prime…

hep-ex2023

Measurement of the intrinsic hadronic contamination in the NA64 high-purity beam at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, B. Banto Oberhauser +65

In this study, we present the measurement of the intrinsic hadronic contamination at the CERN SPS H4 beamline configured to transport electrons and positrons at 100 GeV/c momentum.…

hep-ex2022★ 34 cited

Search for a New B-L Z' Gauge Boson with the NA64 Experiment at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, B. Banto-Oberhauser +55

A search for a new gauge boson associated with (un)broken B-L symmetry in the keV-GeV mass range is carried out for the first time using the missing-energy technique in the NA…

hep-ex2022★ 20 cited

Search for a light muon-philic with the NA64- experiment at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, B. Banto Oberhauser +58

The extension of Standard Model made by inclusion of additional gauge symmetry can explain the difference between the measured and the predicted value of the muon…

physics.atom-ph2022★ 14 cited

Measurement of the == transition in Muonium

G. Janka, B. Ohayon, I. Cortinovis +9

Muons are puzzling physicists since their discovery when they were first thought to be the meson predicted by Yukawa to mediate the strong force. The recent results at Fermilab on…

hep-ex2021★ 41 cited

Prospects in the search for a new light boson with the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

H. Sieber, D. Banerjee, P. Crivelli +6

A light vector boson coupled to the second and third lepton generations through current with mass below 200 MeV provides a very viable explanation in terms of new ph…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 49 cited

Precision measurement of the Lamb shift in Muonium

B. Ohayon, G. Janka, I. Cortinovis +10

We report a new measurement of the Lamb shift in Muonium using microwave spectroscopy. Our result of MHz comprises an order of…

hep-ex2021★ 54 cited

Improved exclusion limit for light dark matter from annihilation in NA64

Yu. Andreev, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard +55

The current most stringent constraints for the existence of sub-GeV dark matter coupling to Standard Model via a massive vector boson were set by the NA64 experiment for…

hep-ex2021

Probing the explanation of the muon (g-2) anomaly and thermal light dark matter with the semi-visible dark photon channel

C. Cazzaniga, P. Odagiu, E. Depero +55

We report the results of a search for a new vector boson () decaying into two dark matter particles of different mass. The heavier particle subsequently decays…

hep-ex2021★ 27 cited

Search for pseudoscalar bosons decaying into pairs in the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard +52

We report the results of a search for a light pseudoscalar particle that couples to electrons and decays to performed using the high-energy CERN SPS H4 electron beam.…

hep-ex2021★ 42 cited

Constraints on New Physics in the Electron g-2 from a Search for Invisible Decays of a Scalar, Pseudoscalar, Vector, and Axial Vector

Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard +49

We performed a search for a new generic boson, which could be a scalar (), pseudoscalar (), vector () or an axial vector () particle produced in the 100 GeV electro…

hep-ex2020

Hunting down the X17 boson at the CERN SPS

E. Depero, Yu. M. Andreev, D. Banerjee +53

Recently, the ATOMKI experiment has reported new evidence for the excess of events with a mass 17 MeV in the nuclear transitions of He, that they previously obs…

hep-ex2020★ 123 cited

Improved limits on a hypothetical X(16.7) boson and a dark photon decaying into pairs

D. Banerjee, J. Bernhard, V. E. Burtsev +51

The improved results on a direct search for a new X(16.7 MeV) boson which could explain the anomalous excess of pairs observed in the excited 8Be nucleus decays ("Berilliu…

hep-ex2019★ 215 cited

Dark matter search in missing energy events with NA64

D. Banerjee, V. E. Burtsev, A. G. Chumakov +48

A search for sub-GeV dark matter production mediated by a new vector boson , called dark photon, is performed by the NA64 experiment in missing energy events from 100 GeV elect…

physics.acc-ph2018★ 18 cited

Particle physics applications of the AWAKE acceleration scheme

A. Caldwell, J. Chappell, P. Crivelli +11

The AWAKE experiment had a very successful Run 1 (2016-8), demonstrating proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for the first time, through the observation of the modulation o…

hep-ex2018★ 128 cited

Search for a Hypothetical 16.7 MeV Gauge Boson and Dark Photons in the NA64 Experiment at CERN

D. Banerjee, V. E. Burtsev, A. G. Chumakov +45

We report the first results on a direct search for a new 16.7 MeV boson (X) which could explain the anomalous excess of e+e- pairs observed in the excited Be-8 nucleus decays. Due…

hep-ex2017★ 135 cited

Search for vector mediator of Dark Matter production in invisible decay mode

NA64 Collaboration, D. Banerjee, V. E. Burtsev +41

A search is performed for a new sub-GeV vector boson () mediated production of Dark Matter () in the fixed-target experiment, NA64, at the CERN SPS. The , called dark ph…

physics.ins-det2017★ 16 cited

Performance of Multiplexed XY Resistive Micromegas detectors in a high intensity beam

D. Banerjee, V. Burtsev, A. Chumakov +38

We present the performance of multiplexed XY resistive Micromegas detectors tested in the CERN SPS 100 GeV/c electron beam at intensities up to 3.3 10 e/(s…

physics.ins-det2017★ 30 cited

High purity 100 GeV electron identification with synchrotron radiation

E. Depero, D. Banerjee, V. Burtsev +36

In high energy experiments such as active beam dump searches for rare decays and missing energy events, the beam purity is a crucial parameter. In this paper we present a technique…