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SHiP is a new general purpose fixed target experiment at the CERN SPS designed to complement LHC experiments in the search for new physics. In its initial phase, the $400$ GeV proton beam extracted from the SPS will be dumped on a heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-23 Oliver Lantwin

A Rayleigh-Schr\"{o}dinger type of perturbation scheme is employed to study weakly interacting kinks and domain walls formed from two different real scalar fields $\chi$ and $\varphi$. An interaction potential $% V_{1}(\chi,\varphi)$ is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-08 J. R. Morris

Scalar and tensor interactions were once competitors to the now well-established V-A structure of the Standard Model weak interactions. We revisit these interactions and survey constraints from low-energy probes (neutron, nuclear, and pion…

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are one of the leading candidates for dark matter. Currently, the most promising method to detect many different WIMP candidates is the direct detection of the recoil energy deposited in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Manuel Drees , Chung-Lin Shan

We describe an effective theory of interaction between pairs of dark matter particles (denoted $\chi$) and pairs of $W$ bosons. Such an interaction could accommodate $\chi\bar{\chi}\rightarrow WW$ processes, which are a major focus of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-25 Nicolas Lopez , Linda M. Carpenter , Randel Cotta , Meghan Frate , Ning Zhou , Daniel Whiteson

In 2024, the SHiP experiment, together with the associated Beam Dump Facility (BDF) under the auspices of the High Intensity ECN3 (HI-ECN3) project, was selected for the future physics exploitation of the ECN3 experimental facility at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-10 SHiP Collaboration , ECN3 Project Team

Trapped radioactive atoms present exciting opportunities for the study of fundamental interactions and symmetries. For example, detecting beta decay in a trap can probe the minute experimental signal that originates from possible tensor or…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-02-18 S. Vaintraub , K. Blaum , M. Hass , O. Heber , O. Aviv , M. Rappaport , A. Dhal , I. Mardor , A. Wolf

The NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a new experiment to study hadron production in p+p p+A, h+A and A+A interactions. The main goal of the NA61 ion program is to explore the phase diagram (T - mu_B) of strongly interacting matter. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Katarzyna Grebieszkow

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment at the CERN Super-Proton-Synchrotron. The main goals of the experiment are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-17 Magdalena Kuich

Current ton-scale dark matter direct detection experiments have reached an important milestone with the detection of solar neutrinos. In this paper, we show that these data can be used to determine a critical parameter of the Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-05 Tarak Nath Maity , Celine Boehm

NEXT (Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC) is a neutrinoless double-beta (\beta\beta 0\nu) decay experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). It seeks to detect the (\beta\beta 0\nu) decay of Xe-136 using a high pressure xenon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Nebot-Guinot

The CERN Resonant WISP Search (CROWS) probes the existence of Weakly Interacting Sub-eV Particles (WISPs) like axions or hidden sector photons. It is based on the principle of an optical light shining through the wall experiment, adapted to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-10-31 M. Betz , F. Caspers , M. Gasior , M. Thumm , S. W. Rieger

NA61/SHINE at the CERN SPS is a fixed-target experiment pursuing a rich physics program including measurements for heavy ion, neutrino and cosmic ray physics. The main goal of the strong interactions program is to study the properties of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska

We describe the current status of the DarkLight experiment at Jefferson Laboratory. DarkLight is motivated by the possibility that a dark photon in the mass range 10 to 100 MeV/c$^2$ could couple the dark sector to the Standard Model.…

The coupled dark energy models, in which the quintessence scalar field nontrivially couples to the cold dark matter, have been proposed to explain the coincidence problem. In this paper we study the perturbations of coupled dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Jun-Qing Xia

The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC has conducted a beam energy scan at several collision energies in order to search for signatures of the QCD critical point and the onset of deconfinement. PHENIX has conducted measurements of transverse energy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 J. T. Mitchell

Spectrum shape measurements in nuclear $\beta$ decay can be used to test physics beyond the Standard Model with results being complementary to high-energy collider experiments. In particular, Beyond Standard Model sensitivity of the weak…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-04-05 L. De Keukeleere , D. Rozpedzik , N. Severijns , K. Bodek , L. Hayen , K. Lojek , M. Perkowski , S. Vanlangendonck

The NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is pursuing a rich programme on strong interactions, which covers the study of the onset of deconfinement and aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-08 Dag Larsen

The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study properties of the onset of deconfinement. It also to performs precise hadron production measurements for the neutrino and cosmic rays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Antoni Aduszkiewicz

A realistic interpretation(REIN) of wave function in quantum mechanics is briefly presented in this work. In REIN, the wave function of a microscopic object is just its real existence rather than a mere mathematical description. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Gui-Lu Long , Wei Qin , Zhe Yang , Jun-Lin Li