Secondary beams at high-intensity electron accelerator facilities
Abstract
The interaction of a high-current (100~\textmu A), medium energy (10\,GeV) electron beam with a thick target (1m) produces an overwhelming shower of standard matter particles in addition to hypothetical Light Dark Matter particles. While most of the radiation (gamma, electron/positron, and neutron) is contained in the thick target, deep penetrating particles (muons, neutrinos, and light dark matter particles) propagate over a long distance, producing high-intense secondary beams. Using sophisticated Monte Carlo simulations based on FLUKA and GEANT4, we explored the characteristics of secondary muons and neutrinos and (hypothetical) dark scalar particles produced by the interaction of Jefferson Lab 11 GeV intense electron beam with the experimental Hall-A beam dump. Considering the possible beam energy upgrade, this study was repeated for a 20 GeV CEBAF beam.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.08440,
title = {Secondary beams at high-intensity electron accelerator facilities},
author = {Marco Battaglieri and Andrea Bianconi and Mariangela Bondí and Raffaella De Vita and Antonino Fulci and Giulia Gosta and Stefano Grazzi and Hyon-Suk Jo and Changhui Lee and Giuseppe Mandaglio and Valerio Mascagna and Tetiana Nagorna and Alessandro Pilloni and Marco Spreafico and Luca J Tagliapietra and Luca Venturelli and Tommaso Vittorini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08440},
year = {2024}
}