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Dark Matter at the Intensity Frontier: the new MESA electron accelerator facility

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2019-08-22 v1 Nuclear Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Dark Matter is being searched with a variety of methods, each of which tackles this challenge focusing on different kinds of particles, masses and couplings. Here we describe Dark Matter searches conducted with accelerators and fixed targets. In particular, we highlight the contribution of the experiments being built at the new Mainz Energy-recovery Superconducting Accelerator (MESA) facility. MESA will provide intense electron beams for hadron and nuclear physics, as well as for Dark Matter searches with competitive sensitivities.

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@article{arxiv.1908.07921,
  title  = {Dark Matter at the Intensity Frontier: the new MESA electron accelerator facility},
  author = {Luca Doria and Patrick Achenbach and Mirco Christmann and Achim Denig and Harald Merkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07921},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Proceedings of ALPS 2019, April 22 - 27, 2019, Obergurgl, Austria. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1809.07168

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