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most citedDark matter search in missing energy events with NA64

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hep-ex2025

Searching for Light Dark Matter and Dark Sectors with the NA64 experiment at the CERN SPS

Yu. M. Andreev, A. Antonov, M. A. Ayala Torres +49

Since its approval in 2016, NA64 has pioneered light dark matter (LDM) searches with electron, positron, muon, and hadron beams. The experiment has successfully met its primary obj…

hep-ex2025

High efficiency veto hadron calorimeter in the NA64 experiment at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev, A. Antonov, M. A. Ayala Torres +53

NA64 is a fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS designed to search for Light particle Dark Matter (LDM) candidates with masses in the sub-GeV range. During the 2016-2022 runs, th…

hep-ex2025

Proof of principle for a light dark matter search with low-energy positron beams at NA64

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

Thermal light dark matter (LDM) with particle masses in the 1 MeV - 1 GeV range could successfully explain the observed dark matter abundance as a relic from the primordial Univers…

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…

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-ph2021★ 38 cited

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

M. Bondi, A. Celentano, R. R. Dusaev +5

We present the package for the simulation of DM (Dark Matter) particles in fixed target experiments. The most convenient way of this simulation (and the only possible way in the ca…

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.ins-det2019★ 9 cited

Identification of particles with Lorentz factor up to with Transition Radiation Detectors based on micro-strip silicon detectors

J. Alozy, N. Belyaev, M. Campbell +39

This work is dedicated to the study of a technique for hadron identification in the TeV momentum range, based on the simultaneous measurement of the energies and of the emission an…