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Light dark matter searches with positrons

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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 compelling hypothesis that identifies dark matter with new sub-GeV “hidden sector” states, neutral under standard model interactions and interacting with our world through a new force. Accelerator-based searches at the intensity frontier are uniquely suited to explore it. Thanks to the high intensity and the high energy of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) beam, and relying on a novel LDM production mechanism via positron annihilation on target atomic electrons, the proposed strategies will allow us to explore new regions in the LDM parameters space, thoroughly probing the LDM hypothesis as well as more general hidden sector scenarios.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: This work is based on Monte Carlo simulations and does not include measured data. We did not consider of public interest to deposit the simulated data related to this manuscript.]

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  1. \(m_{A^\prime }\) is the dark photon mass and \(m_e=0.511\) MeV/c\(^2\) is the electron mass.

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  1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, 16146, Genoa, Italy

    M. Battaglieri, P. Bisio, M. Bondì, A. Celentano, R. De Vita, L. Marsicano, E. Santopinto & M. Spreafico

  2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, 23606, USA

    M. Battaglieri, E. Smith, S. Stepanyan & M. Ungaro

  3. Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25123, Brescia, Italy

    A. Bianconi, G. Costantini, M. Leali, S. Migliorati & L. Venturelli

  4. INFN, Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    A. Bianconi, G. Costantini, M. Leali, V. Mascagna, S. Migliorati & L. Venturelli

  5. Università degli Studi di Genova, 16146, Genoa, Italy

    P. Bisio & M. Spreafico

  6. Lamar University, 4400 MLK Blvd, PO Box 10046, Beaumont, TX, 77710, USA

    P. L. Cole

  7. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E. Fermi 54, Frascati, Italy

    L. Darmé, V. Kozhuharov & E. Nardi

  8. INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy

    A. D’Angelo & L. Lanza

  9. Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133, Rome, Italy

    A. D’Angelo

  10. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, 95125, Catania, Italy

    M. De Napoli, A. Italiano & N. Randazzo

  11. Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 39762-5167, USA

    L. El Fassi

  12. Faculty of physics, University of Sofia, 5 J. Bourchier Blvd, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria

    V. Kozhuharov

  13. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, 60510, USA

    G. Krnjaic

  14. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    G. Krnjaic

  15. Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, 22100, Como, Italy

    V. Mascagna

  16. Sapienza Università di Roma, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy

    M. Raggi

  17. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Rome, Italy

    M. Raggi & P. Valente

  18. Canisius College, Buffalo, NY, 14208, USA

    M. H. Wood

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Battaglieri, M., Bianconi, A., Bisio, P. et al. Light dark matter searches with positrons. Eur. Phys. J. A 57, 253 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00524-6

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