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Feebly Interacting Particles are a commonly considered extension to the Standard Model of Particle Physics. In many theoretical frameworks these particles can explain observed physical phenomena which are in tension with the current model.…

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The increasing interest in Long-Lived Particles (LLPs) has led to numerous proposed experiments in order to search for them. However, the sensitivity estimates published by these experiments tend to rely on disparate assumptions. To ensure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-29 Maksym Ovchynnikov , Jean-Loup Tastet , Oleksii Mikulenko , Kyrylo Bondarenko

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) Collaboration has shown that the CERN SPS accelerator with its 400 $\mathrm{\small GeV/c}$ proton beam offers a unique opportunity to explore the Hidden Sector. The proposed experiment is an intensity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 SHiP Collaboration

Intensity Frontier experiments are often evaluated by the smallest coupling it can probe, irrespective of what particle can be found or the scientific significance of its detection. In this work, we propose a new framework that determines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Oleksii Mikulenko , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We discuss the parameter space reach of future experiments searching for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the GeV scale in terms of neutrino mass models with three HNL generations. We focus on two classes of models: Generic assumptions (such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-22 Rasmus W. Rasmussen , Walter Winter

We present a discovery-era strategy for Intensity Frontier experiments based on ``di-decay'' events, in which feebly interacting particles (FIPs) are produced in pairs and then both decay inside the detector. This signature may exist in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Giovani Dalla Valle Garcia , Maksym Ovchynnikov

Future searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model are without doubt in need of a diverse approach and experiments with complementary sensitivities to different types of classes of models. One of the directions that should be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-15 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleksii Mikulenko , Richard Jacobsson , Maksym Ovchynnikov

Determining the type of the neutrino mass ordering (normal versus inverted) is one of the most important open questions in neutrino physics. In this paper we clarify the statistical interpretation of sensitivity calculations for this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Mattias Blennow , Pilar Coloma , Patrick Huber , Thomas Schwetz

SHiP is a newly proposed fixed-target experiment at the CERN SPS with the aim of searching for hidden particles that interact very weakly with SM particles. The work presented in this document investigates SHiP's physics reach in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-07-09 Elena Graverini , Nicola Serra , Barbara Storaci

We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

The MINERvA neutrino interaction experiment in the NuMI beam at Fermilab will measure several aspects of neutrino interactions in the few GeV energy region. We will make cross section and form factor measurements using a fine-grained fully…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Gran

The non-detection of GeV-scale WIMPs has led to increased interest in more general candidates, including sub-GeV dark matter. Direct detection experiments, despite their high sensitivity to WIMPs, are largely blind to sub-GeV dark matter.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-12 Christopher V. Cappiello , John F. Beacom

We search for an excess of electrons and positrons in the interplanetary space from the decays of heavy neutrinos produced in nuclear reactions in the Sun. Using measurements of the electron spectra in the MeV range from the Ulysses and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 Marco Drewes , Jan Heisig , Valentin Weber

We consider the possible existence of a SM-neutral and light dark sector coupled to the visible sector through irrelevant portal interactions. Scenarios of this kind are motivated by dark matter and arise in various extensions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Roberto Contino , Kevin Max , Rashmish K. Mishra

Seesaw mechanism constrains from below mixing between active and sterile neutrinos for fixed sterile neutrino masses. Signal events associated with sterile neutrino decays inside a detector at fixed target experiment are suppressed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-09 Igor Krasnov , Timofey Grigorin-Ryabov

We show how neutrino data can be used in order to constrain the free parameters of possible extensions to the standard model of elementary particles (SM). For definiteness, we focus in the recently proposed unparticle scenario. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Barranco , A. Bolanos , O. G. Miranda , C. A. Moura , T. I. Rashba

Present and upcoming neutrino experiments can have considerable sensitivity to dark sectors that interact feebly with the Standard Model. We consider dark sectors interacting with the SM through irrelevant portals that are motivated on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Marco Costa , Rashmish K. Mishra , Sonali Verma

We survey the sensitivity of past and present neutrino experiments to MeV-GeV scale dark matter, and find that these experiments possess novel sensitivity that has not yet fully explored. NO$\nu$A and BEBC are found to rule out the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Luca Buonocore , Patrick deNiverville , Claudia Frugiuele

The results of LSND have yet to be confirmed at the $5 \sigma$-level. An experiment is proposed utilizing a 3 GeV muon storage ring that would allow for both disappearance and appearance channels to be explored at short-baselines. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-29 Christopher D. Tunnell , John H. Cobb , Alan D. Bross