This paper describes the concept of a primary electron beam facility at CERN, to be used for dark gauge force and light dark matter searches. The electron beam is produced in three stages: A Linac accelerates electrons from a photo-cathode up to 3.5 GeV. This beam is injected into the Super Proton Synchrotron, SPS, and accelerated up to a maximum energy of 16 GeV. Finally, the accelerated beam is slowly extracted to an experiment, possibly followed by a fast dump of the remaining electrons to another beamline. The beam parameters are optimized using the requirements of the Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) as benchmark.
@article{arxiv.1905.07657,
title = {A primary electron beam facility at CERN},
author = {T. Åkesson and R. Corsini and Y. Dutheil and L. Evans and B. Goddard and A. Grudiev and A. Latina and Y. Papaphilippou and S. Stapnes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07657},
year = {2019}
}