In the recent past, a comprehensive experimental program has been worked out at the Mainz Energy-Recovery Superconducting Accelerator, MESA, at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Mainz. MESA is a high-intensity, low-energy electron accelerator presently under construction and will thereby provide great opportunities to perform a new generation of high-precision scattering experiments. The versatile MAGIX experiment will use MESA's innovative energy recovery technique, with a science focus on the study of hadron structure and few-body systems, dark sector searches, and investigations into reactions pertinent to nuclear astrophysics. An external beam line will supply spin-polarized electrons to the P2 experiment, enabling the performance of sensitive tests of the Standard Model through parity-violating electron scattering. The DarkMESA beam dump experiment, situated behind P2, is dedicated to the search for light dark matter particles.
@article{arxiv.2402.01027,
title = {The MESA physics program},
author = {Sören Schlimme and Kurt Aulenbacher and Sebastian Baunack and Niklaus Berger and Achim Denig and Luca Doria and Alfons Khoukaz and Frank Maas and Harald Merkel and Concettina Sfienti and Michaela Thiel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.01027},
year = {2024}
}
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Proceedings of the 16th edition of the "International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon" (MENU 2023)