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20202026
most citedAn experimental program with high duty-cycle polarized and unpolarized positron beams at Jefferson Lab

45 citations · 118 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.ins-det2026

Design and characterization of the POKERINO prototype for the POKER/NA64 experiment at CERN

Andrei Antonov, Pietro Bisio, Mariangela Bondì +3

The NA64 experiment at CERN H4 beamline recently started a high-energy positron-beam program to search for light dark matter particles through a thick-target, missing-energy measur…

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

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-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

Experiments and Facilities for Accelerator-Based Dark Sector Searches

Philip Ilten, Nhan Tran, Patrick Achenbach +27

This paper provides an overview of experiments and facilities for accelerator-based dark matter searches as part of the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowma…

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★ 3 cited

Light dark matter searches with positrons

M. Battaglieri, A. Bianconi, P. Bisio +28

We discuss two complementary strategies to search for light dark matter (LDM) exploiting the positron beam possibly available in the future at Jefferson Laboratory. LDM is a new co…

physics.ins-det2020★ 13 cited

The BDX-MINI detector for Light Dark Matter search at JLab

M. Battaglieri, P. Bisio, M. Bondí +13

This paper describes the design and performance of a compact detector, BDX-MINI, that incorporates all features of a concept that optimized the detection of light dark matter produ…

nucl-ex2020★ 45 cited

An experimental program with high duty-cycle polarized and unpolarized positron beams at Jefferson Lab

A. Accardi, A. Afanasev, I. Albayrak +227

Positron beams, both polarized and unpolarized, are identified as essential ingredients for the experimental programs at the next generation of lepton accelerators. In the context…