DarkLight实验：低能区新物理的精确搜寻
仪器与探测器
2014-12-16 v1 高能物理 - 实验
摘要
我们描述了杰斐逊实验室DarkLight实验的当前状态。DarkLight的动机是，质量范围在10至100 MeV/c的暗光子可能将暗扇区与标准模型耦合。DarkLight将利用杰斐逊实验室能量回收直线加速器上强度为5 mA的100 MeV电子束，入射到无窗气体分子氢靶上，精确测量电子-质子散射。将探测完整的末态，包括散射电子、反冲质子和e+e-对。第一阶段实验已获资助，预计在未来18个月内获取数据。完整的第二阶段实验正在最终设计中，可在第一阶段完成后两年内运行。DarkLight实验推动了束流、靶和探测器新技术的开发，并为低动量转移下的电子散射实验提供了新手段。
引用
@article{arxiv.1412.4717,
title = {The DarkLight Experiment: A Precision Search for New Physics at Low Energies},
author = {J. Balewski and J. Bernauer and J. Bessuille and R. Corliss and R. Cowan and C. Epstein and P. Fisher and D. Hasell and E. Ihloff and Y. Kahn and J. Kelsey and R. Milner and S. Steadman and J. Thaler and C. Tschalaer and C. Vidal and S. Benson and J. Boyce and D. Douglas and P. Evtushenko and C. Hernandez-Garcia and C. Keith and C. Tennant and S. Zhang and R. Alarcon and D. Blyth and R. Dipert and L. Ice and G. Randall and B. Dongwi and N. Kalantarians and M. Kohl and A. Liyanage and J. Nazeer and M. Garcon and R. Cervantes and K. Dehmelt and A. Deshpande and N. Feege and B. Surrow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4717},
year = {2014}
}
备注
Whitepaper submitted to Town Meeting on Fundamental and Symmetries and Neutrinos, O'Hare airport, Chicago, IL