The Jefferson Lab facility for light dark matter searches

by Dr Stepan Stepanyan (Jefferson Lab)

Monday 29 Jun 2015, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

500 (Dipartimento di Fisica)

The high luminosity (O(1 ab-1/day)) presently available at electron accelerators, such as CEBAF and FEL at Jefferson Lam (USA), MAMI at Mainz (Germany), and their beam characteristics make them well suited for searches Light Dark Matter particles and the hidden sector photons (A as often they are called). This potential is just beginning to be exploited. The beam parameters of the fixed-target machines are well suited for exploring regions of coupling strengths of hidden sector photons as low as ’/, with a mass coverage for LDM and A 1 < mA < 1000 MeV. In this talk we will present characteristics of CEBAF and FEL machines at Jefferson Lab, and the parameters of existing and future experimental facilities. We will also discuss ongoing and future experiments for A and LDM searches.

Slides Stepanyan.pdf