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In our previous work [Phys. Rev. D 101 (2020) 075046], we have proposed to install FAr Detectors at the Electron Positron Collider (FADEPC) to enhance the discovery potential of long-lived particles (LLPs). In this study, we consider eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-21 Minglun Tian , Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

MeV-GeV dark matter (DM) is theoretically well motivated but remarkably unexplored. This proposal presents the MeV-GeV DM discovery potential for a $\sim$1 m$^3$ segmented CsI(Tl) scintillator detector placed downstream of the Hall A…

We study axionlike particles (ALPs) in beam dump experiments, focusing on the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP, at CERN) experiment and the Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX, at JLab). Many existing projections for sensitivity to ALPs in beam dump…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Samuel Patrone , Nikita Blinov , Ryan Plestid

We propose a novel experimental scheme, called DAMSA (Dump-produced Aboriginal Matter Searches at an Accelerator), for searching for dark-sector particles, using rare nuclear isotope accelerator facilities that provide high-flux proton…

Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-09-11 Juliette Alimena , James Beacham , Martino Borsato , Yangyang Cheng , Xabier Cid Vidal , Giovanna Cottin , Albert De Roeck , Nishita Desai , David Curtin , Jared A. Evans , Simon Knapen , Sabine Kraml , Andre Lessa , Zhen Liu , Sascha Mehlhase , Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf , Heather Russell , Jessie Shelton , Brian Shuve , Monica Verducci , Jose Zurita , Todd Adams , Michael Adersberger , Cristiano Alpigiani , Artur Apresyan , Robert John Bainbridge , Varvara Batozskaya , Hugues Beauchesne , Lisa Benato , S. Berlendis , Eshwen Bhal , Freya Blekman , Christina Borovilou , Jamie Boyd , Benjamin P. Brau , Lene Bryngemark , Oliver Buchmueller , Malte Buschmann , William Buttinger , Mario Campanelli , Cari Cesarotti , Chunhui Chen , Hsin-Chia Cheng , Sanha Cheong , Matthew Citron , Andrea Coccaro , V. Coco , Eric Conte , Félix Cormier , Louie D. Corpe , Nathaniel Craig , Yanou Cui , Elena Dall'Occo , C. Dallapiccola , M. R. Darwish , Alessandro Davoli , Annapaola de Cosa , Andrea De Simone , Luigi Delle Rose , Frank F. Deppisch , Biplab Dey , Miriam D. Diamond , Keith R. Dienes , Sven Dildick , Babette Döbrich , Marco Drewes , Melanie Eich , M. ElSawy , Alberto Escalante del Valle , Gabriel Facini , Marco Farina , Jonathan L. Feng , Oliver Fischer , H. U. Flaecher , Patrick Foldenauer , Marat Freytsis , Benjamin Fuks , Iftah Galon , Yuri Gershtein , Stefano Giagu , Andrea Giammanco , Vladimir V. Gligorov , Tobias Golling , Sergio Grancagnolo , Giuliano Gustavino , Andrew Haas , Kristian Hahn , Jan Hajer , Ahmed Hammad , Lukas Heinrich , Jan Heisig , J. C. Helo , Gavin Hesketh , Christopher S. Hill , Martin Hirsch , M. Hohlmann , W. Hulsbergen , John Huth , Philip Ilten , Thomas Jacques , Bodhitha Jayatilaka , Geng-Yuan Jeng , K. A. Johns , Toshiaki Kaji , Gregor Kasieczka , Yevgeny Kats , Malgorzata Kazana , Henning Keller , Maxim Yu. Khlopov , Felix Kling , Ted R. Kolberg , Igor Kostiuk , Emma Sian Kuwertz , Audrey Kvam , Greg Landsberg , Gaia Lanfranchi , Iñaki Lara , Alexander Ledovskoy , Dylan Linthorne , Jia Liu , Iacopo Longarini , Steven Lowette , Henry Lubatti , Margaret Lutz , Jingyu Luo , Judita Mamužić , Matthieu Marinangeli , Alberto Mariotti , Daniel Marlow , Matthew McCullough , Kevin McDermott , P. Mermod , David Milstead , Vasiliki A. Mitsou , Javier Montejo Berlingen , Filip Moortgat , Alessandro Morandini , Alice Polyxeni Morris , David Michael Morse , Stephen Mrenna , Benjamin Nachman , Miha Nemevšek , Fabrizio Nesti , Christian Ohm , Silvia Pascoli , Kevin Pedro , Cristián Peña , Karla Josefina Pena Rodriguez , Jónatan Piedra , James L. Pinfold , Antonio Policicchio , Goran Popara , Jessica Prisciandaro , Mason Proffitt , Giorgia Rauco , Federico Redi , Matthew Reece , Allison Reinsvold Hall , H. Rejeb Sfar , Sophie Renner , Amber Roepe , Manfredi Ronzani , Ennio Salvioni , Arka Santra , Ryu Sawada , Jakub Scholtz , Philip Schuster , Pedro Schwaller , Cristiano Sebastiani , Sezen Sekmen , Michele Selvaggi , Weinan Si , Livia Soffi , Daniel Stolarski , David Stuart , John Stupak , Kevin Sung , Wendy Taylor , Sebastian Templ , Brooks Thomas , Emma Torró-Pastor , Daniele Trocino , Sebastian Trojanowski , Marco Trovato , Yuhsin Tsai , C. G. Tully , Tamás Álmos Vámi , Juan Carlos Vasquez , Carlos Vázquez Sierra , K. Vellidis , Basile Vermassen , Martina Vit , Devin G. E. Walker , Xiao-Ping Wang , Gordon Watts , Si Xie , Melissa Yexley , Charles Young , Jiang-Hao Yu , Piotr Zalewski , Yongchao Zhang

Many existing or proposed intensity-frontier search experiments look for decay signatures of light long-lived particles (LLPs), highly displaced from the interaction point, in a distant detector that is well-shielded from SM background.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-23 Krzysztof Jodłowski , Felix Kling , Leszek Roszkowski , Sebastian Trojanowski

As part of the Snowmass'21 community planning excercise, the Advanced Accelerator Concepts (AAC) community proposed future linear colliders with center-of-mass energies up to 15 TeV and luminosities up to 50$\times10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$…

In this work we demonstrate that a future accelerator-based neutrino experiment such as DUNE can greatly increase its sensitivity to a variety of new physics scenarios by operating in a mode where the proton beam impinges on a beam dump. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

Bubble Chambers provided the dominant particle detection technology in accelerator experiments for several decades, eventually falling into disuse with the advent of other techniques. We report here on the first period of operation of an…

Experimental tests of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM) find excellent agreement with its predictions. Since the original formation of the SM, experiments have provided little guidance regarding the explanations of phenomena…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-01 Lawrence Lee , Christian Ohm , Abner Soffer , Tien-Tien Yu

The SuperCDMS experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) that may constitute the dark matter in our Galaxy. During its operation at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, germanium detectors were run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 SuperCDMS Collaboration , R. Agnese , A. J. Anderson , T. Aralis , T. Aramaki , I. J. Arnquist , W. Baker , D. Balakishiyeva , D. Barker , R. Basu Thakur , D. A. Bauer , T. Binder , M. A. Bowles , P. L. Brink , R. Bunker , B. Cabrera , D. O. Caldwell , R. Calkins , C. Cartaro , D. G. Cerdeno , Y. Chang , H. Chagani , Y. Chen , J. Cooley , B. Cornell , P. Cushman , M. Daal , P. C. F. Di Stefano , T. Doughty , L. Esteban , E. Fascione , E. Figueroa-Feliciano , M. Fritts , G. Gerbier , M. Ghaith , G. L. Godfrey , S. R. Golwala , J. Hall , H. R. Harris , Z. Hong , E. W. Hoppe , L. Hsu , M. E. Huber , V. Iyer , D. Jardin , A. Jastram , C. Jena , M. H. Kelsey , A. Kennedy , A. Kubik , N. A. Kurinsky , A. Leder , B. Loer , E. Lopez Asamar , P. Lukens , D. MacDonell , R. Mahapatra , V. Mandic , N. Mast , E. H. Miller , N. Mirabolfathi , R. A. Moffatt , B. Mohanty , J. D. Morales Mendoza , J. Nelson , J. L. Orrell , S. M. Oser , K. Page , W. A. Page , R. Partridge , M. Pepin , M. Penalver Martinez , A. Phipps , S. Poudel , M. Pyle , H. Qiu , W. Rau , P. Redl , A. Reisetter , T. Reynolds , A. Roberts , A. E. Robinson , H. E. Rogers , T. Saab , B. Sadoulet , J. Sander , K. Schneck , R. W. Schnee , S. Scorza , K. Senapati , B. Serfass , D. Speller , M. Stein , J. Street , H. A. Tanaka , D. Toback , R. Underwood , A. N. Villano , B. von Krosigk , B. Welliver , J. S. Wilson , M. J Wilson , D. H. Wright , S. Yellin , J. J. Yen , B. A. Young , X. Zhang , X. Zhao

The Beam Dump Facility (BDF) is a proposed general-purpose facility at CERN, dedicated to fixed target and beam dump experiments, currently being developed in the context of the Physics Beyond Colliders program. The design of the facility…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-11 P. Avigni , M. Battistin , M. Calviani , P. Dalakov , K. Kershaw , J. Klier , M. Lamont , E. Lopez Sola , J. M. Martin Ruiz

We study the prospects of the proposed $\mu$TRISTAN experiment, running in the energy asymmetric $\mu^+ e^-$ mode, in probing long lived particles (LLPs) arising from the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson. We focus on the proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Daniele Barducci

The injector of C-ADS (Chinese Accelerator Driven Sub-critical System) project is a high current, fully super-conducting proton accelerator. Meanwhile, a BLM system is indispensable to this facility, especially in low energy segments. This…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Guangyi Ren , Ming Zeng , Yuan He , Yuxiong Li , Weimin Li

We propose a new beam-dump experiment, SHADOWS, to search for a large variety of feebly-interacting particles possibly produced in the interactions of a 400 GeV proton beam with a high-Z material dump. SHADOWS will use the 400 GeV primary…

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

This document presents the physics case and ancillary studies for the proposed CODEX-b long-lived particle (LLP) detector, as well as for a smaller proof-of-concept demonstrator detector, CODEX-$\beta$, to be operated during Run 3 of the…

BULLKID-DM is an experiment designed for the direct searches of particle dark matter candidates with mass around 1 GeV, or below, and cross-section with nucleons smaller than $10^{-40}$ cm$^2$. The detector consists of a stack of diced…

China's first proton test beam facility, named the High-energy Proton-beam Experiment Station (HPES), is currently under construction in campus of CSNS, as part of the CSNS-II project. Utilizing protons slowly extracted from the Rapid…

Accelerator-based neutrino experiments with high-intensity proton beams and advanced detector technologies provide a powerful and complementary approach to probing physics beyond the Standard Model. The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Bhaskar Dutta , Debopam Goswami , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Vishvas Pandey , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Richard G. Van de Water