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hep-ex2025

Status of the Proton EDM Experiment (pEDM)

Jim Alexander, Vassilis Anastassopoulos, Grigor Atoian +80

The Proton EDM Experiment (pEDM) is the first direct search for the proton electric dipole moment (EDM) with the aim of being the first experiment to probe the Standard Model (SM)…

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★ 3 cited

Daily modulations and broadband strategy in axion searches. An application with CAST-CAPP detector

F. Caspers, C. M. Adair, K. Altenmüller +60

It has been previously advocated that the presence of the daily and annual modulations of the axion flux on the Earth's surface may dramatically change the strategy of the axion se…

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★ 6 cited

Experimental determination of axion signal power of dish antennas and dielectric haloscopes using the reciprocity approach

J. Egge, M. Ekmedžić, A. Gardikiotis +13

The reciprocity approach is a powerful method to determine the expected signal power of axion haloscopes in a model-independent way. Especially for open and broadband setups like t…

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★ 90 cited

Search for Dark Matter Axions with CAST-CAPP

C. M. Adair, K. Altenmüller, V. Anastassopoulos +61

The CAST-CAPP axion haloscope, operating at CERN inside the CAST dipole magnet, has searched for axions in the 19.74 eV to 22.47 eV mass range. The detection concept follows…

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★ 2 cited

First results of the CAST-RADES haloscope search for axions at 34.67 eV

A. Álvarez Melcón, S. Arguedas Cuendis, J. Baier +56

We present results of the Relic Axion Dark-Matter Exploratory Setup (RADES), a detector which is part of the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), searching for axion dark matter in t…

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

Simulating MADMAX in 3D: Requirements for Dielectric Axion Haloscopes

S. Knirck, J. Schütte-Engel, S. Beurthey +38

We present 3D calculations for dielectric haloscopes such as the currently envisioned MADMAX experiment. For ideal systems with perfectly flat, parallel and isotropic dielectric di…

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★ 3 cited

First Results on the Search for Chameleons with the KWISP Detector at CAST

S. Arguedas Cuendis, J. Baier, K. Barth +50

We report on a first measurement with a sensitive opto-mechanical force sensor designed for the direct detection of coupling of real chameleons to matter. These dark energy candida…

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…

hep-ex2018★ 24 cited

Improved Search for Solar Chameleons with a GridPix Detector at CAST

V. Anastassopoulos, S. Aune, K. Barth +66

We report on a new search for solar chameleons with the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). A GridPix detector was used to search for soft X-ray photons in the energy range from 200…

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…