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Performance evaluation of a silicon strip detector for positrons/electrons from a pulsed a muon beam

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Heavy neutrino searches from MeV to TeV

The Standard Model (SM) describes particle physics with great precision. However, it does not account for the generation of neutrino masses, whose nature we do not understand. Both a Dirac and a Majorana mass term could intervene, leading…

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A Study of the Impact of Muons from the Beam Delivery System on the SiD Performance

To suppress the muon background arising from the Beam Delivery System (BDS) of the International Linear Collider (ILC), and to hinder it from reaching the interaction region, two different shielding scenarios are under discussion: five…

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DARWIN: towards the ultimate dark matter detector

DARk matter WImp search with liquid xenoN (DARWIN) will be an experiment for the direct detection of dark matter using a multi-ton liquid xenon time projection chamber at its core. Its primary goal will be to explore the experimentally…

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Search for new light particles at ILC main beam dump

We perform a feasibility study of a beam dump experiment at the International Linear Collider (ILC). To investigate the sensitivity to new light particles at the experiment, we consider models for axion-like particles (ALPs) and a light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Yasuhito Sakaki , Daiki Ueda

Further searches of the Higgs scalar sector at the ESS

Recent decades have witnessed remarkable confirmations of the Standard Model (SM) describing the Electro-Weak and Strong Interactions. The Higgs boson was observed at CERN-LHC at 7-8 TeV and 13 TeV. The HL-LHC, a major luminosity upgrade…

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A new methodology for direct detection of heavy dark matter at intense particle beam facilities

We propose new concepts for experiments in which intense high energy photon or muon beams are employed parasitically to detect scattering by cosmic heavy weakly interacting dark matter (DM) particles. We show that the scattering…

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Performance of a prototype bakelite RPC at GIF++ using self-triggered electronics for the CBM Experiment at FAIR

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Hadron Spectroscopy in COMPASS

The COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS) is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) aimed at studying the structure and spectrum of hadrons. In the naive…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Boris Grube

The Muon Spectrometer of the ALICE experiment

The main goal of the Muon Spectrometer of the ALICE experiment is the measurement of heavy quarks in pp, pA and AA collisions at LHC energies, via the muonic channel. Physics motivations, the apparatus and its physics performances are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Gines Martinez

Dark matter sensitivity of multi-ton liquid xenon detectors

We study the sensitivity of multi ton-scale time projection chambers using a liquid xenon target, e.g., the proposed DARWIN instrument, to spin-independent and spin-dependent WIMP-nucleon scattering interactions. Taking into account…

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