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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-ph2025

Probing millicharged particles with NA64 and LDMX

Sergei N. Gninenko, N. V. Krasnikov, Sergey Kuleshov +7

Millicharged particles emerge as compelling candidates in numerous theoretically well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. These hypothetical particles, characterized by an…

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

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-ph2024

Probing Hidden Leptonic Scalar Portals using the NA64 Experiment at CERN

A. Ponten, H. Sieber, B. Banto Oberhauser +7

In this study, we demonstrate the potential of the NA64 experiment at CERN SPS to search for New Physics processes involving transitions after the collision of 100…

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★ 11 cited

Sensitivity potential to a light flavor-changing scalar boson with DUNE and NA64

B. Radics, L. Molina-Bueno, L. Fields. +2

In this work, we report on the sensitivity potential of complementary muon-on-target experiments to new physics using a scalar boson benchmark model associated with charged lepton…

hep-ph2023

Probing hidden sectors with a muon beam: implication of spin-0 dark matter mediators for muon anomaly and validity of the Weiszäcker-Williams approach

H. Sieber, D. V. Kirpichnikov, I. V. Voronchikhin +6

In addition to vector () type new particles extensively discussed previously, both CP-even () and CP-odd () spin-0 Dark Matter (DM) mediators can couple to muons and be pr…

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★ 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…

hep-ph2021

Probing Hidden Sectors with a muon beam: Total and differential cross-sections for vector boson production in muon bremsstrahlung

D. V. Kirpichnikov, H. Sieber, L. Molina Bueno +2

Vector bosons, such as Dark Photon or , can couple to muons and be produced in the bremsstrahlung reaction . Their possible subsequen…

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…