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DarkSHINE is a newly proposed fixed-target experiment initiative to search for the invisible decay of Dark Photon via missing energy/momentum signatures, based on the high repetition rate electron beam to be deployed/delivered by the…

Studies based on imaging the annihilation of the electron (e$^{-}$) and its antiparticle positron (e$^{+}$) open up several interesting applications in nuclear medicine and fundamental research. The annihilation process involves both the…

A search for the massless dark photon in the decay $K^{+}\to \pi^{+}\pi^{0}\overline{{} \gamma}$ is performed with the OKA detector exposed to 17.7 GeV/c RF separated secondary beam of the U70 Proton Synchrotron. A high-statistics data…

If dark matter particles pair annihilate into stable Standard Model particles, a population of energetic, non-thermal electrons and positrons is necessarily produced. The secondary radiation resulting from the energy losses of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 Stefano Profumo , Piero Ullio

High-luminosity experiments are able to search for new physics at low energies, which could have evaded detection thus far due to very weak couplings to the Standard Model. The DarkLight experiment at Jefferson Lab is designed to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Yonatan Kahn , Jesse Thaler

Many dark matter models generically predict invisible and displaced signatures at Belle II, but even striking events may be missed by the currently implemented search programme because of inefficient trigger algorithms. Of particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-11 Michael Duerr , Torben Ferber , Christopher Hearty , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Patrick Tunney

In this letter we point out that the Belle II experiment has a unique sensitivity to visibly decaying long-lived dark photons. Concentrating on the signatures with a single high energy photon in association with a displaced pair of charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Torben Ferber , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

The first observation of about 2000 candidates, with a background contamination below 3%, of the rare decay $K^{\pm} \to \pi^{\pm}\pi^{0}e^+e^-$ is reported by the NA48/2 experiment. The preliminary branching ratio in the full kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-20 M. Raggi

High energy positron annihilation is a viable mechanism to produce dark photons ($A^\prime$). This reaction plays a significant role in beam-dump experiments using experiments using multi-GeV electron-beams on thick targets by enhancing the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-01 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , M. Bondi' , C. D. R. Carvajal , A. Celentano , M. De Napoli , R. De Vita , E. Nardi , M. Raggi , P. Valente

We examine observational signatures of dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way arising from electroweak bremsstrahlung contributions to the annihilation cross section. It has been known for some time that photon bremsstrahlung may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-24 Nicole F. Bell , James B. Dent , Thomas D. Jacques , Thomas J. Weiler

In this talk, we discuss the physics modelling of particle spectra arising from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. In the context of the indirect searches of DM, the final state products will, in general, undergo a set of complicated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 Simone Amoroso , Sascha Caron , Adil Jueid , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Peter Skands

It is well known that in the presence of strong external electromagnetic fields many processes forbidden in standard QED become possible. One example is the one-photon annihilation process considered recently by the present authors in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 D. B. Blaschke , G. Roepke , V. V. Dmitriev , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Tarakanov

In dark photon search experiments with electron beam-dumps, it is difficult to access the smaller dark photon life-time region of phase space due to enormous backgrounds from low-energy particles emerging from the target. In order to reduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-31 Suyong Choi , Yunjun Kim , Youn Roh

The Positron Annihilation to Dark Matter Experiment (PADME) was designed and constructed to search for dark photons ($A'$) in the process $e^+e^-\rightarrow\gamma A'$, using the positron beam at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) at the National…

Recent analyses have shown that the inclusion of electroweak corrections can alter significantly the energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from dark matter annihilations. We investigate the important situation where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Paolo Ciafaloni , Marco Cirelli , Denis Comelli , Andrea De Simone , Antonio Riotto , Alfredo Urbano

Photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model. They have interactions similar to the photon, are vector bosons, and can be produced together with photons. The present paper proposes a search for such particles…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-07-17 Mauro Raggi , Venelin Kozhuharov

We propose a new search for a diphoton resonance in the $e^+e^-+\gamma\gamma$ final state at Belle II that improves the expected reach compared to the $\gamma+\gamma\gamma$ channel in most of the available mass range. For simplicity we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-24 Francesca Acanfora , Roberto Franceschini , Alessio Mastroddi , Diego Redigolo

In a class of theories, dark matter is explained by postulating the existence of a `dark sector', which interacts gravitationally with ordinary matter. If this dark sector contains a U(1) symmetry, and a corresponding `dark' photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-03 Mikael Berggren

At colliders, neutral long-lived particles can be detected through displaced decay products or as missing energy. Which search strategy is better depends on the particle's decay length just as on the detector properties. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Torben Ferber , Anastasiia Filimonova , Ruth Schäfer , Susanne Westhoff

The search for a dark photon produced at $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders which subsequently decays into inelastic dark matter particles, is discussed. The heavier dark matter decays into a pair of visible charged particles and a lighter dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Xin Chen , Zhen Hu , Yongcheng Wu , Kai Yi