18th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

New results for searches of exotic decays with NA62 in beam-dump mode

4 Jul 2023, 12:05

20m

G-003

Tuesday Session 2

Speaker

Dr Babette Dobrich

Description

We report on the search for visible decays of exotic mediators from data taken in "beam-dump" mode with the NA62 experiment.
The NA62 experiment can be run as a "beam-dump experiment" by removing the Kaon production target and moving the upstream collimators into a "closed" position. More than ${10}^{17}$ protons on target have been collected in this way during a week-long data-taking campaign by the NA62 experiment. We report on new results from analysis of this data, with a particular emphasis on Dark Photon and Axion-like particle Models.