Year: 2024
Type: preprint
Abstract: In the recent past, a comprehensive experimental program has been worked out at the Mainz Energy-Recovery Superconducting Accelerator, MESA, at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Mainz. MESA is a high-intensity, low-energy electron accelerator presently under construction and will thereby provide great opportunities to perform a new generation of high-precision scattering experiments. The versatile MAGIX experiment will use MESA's innovative energy recovery technique, with a science focus on the study of hadron structure and few-body systems, dark sector searches, and investigations into reactions pertinent to nuclear astrophysics. An external beam line will supply spin-polarized electrons to the P2 experiment, enabling the performance of sensitive tests of the Standard Model through parity-violating electron scattering. The DarkMESA beam dump experiment, situated behind P2, is dedicated to the search for light dark matter particles.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Schlimme, Sören, Aulenbacher, Kurt, Baunack, Sebastian, Berger, Niklaus, Denig, Achim, Doria, Luca, Khoukaz, Alfons, Maas, Frank, Merkel, Harald, Sfienti, Concettina, Thiel, Michaela
Institutions: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Münster
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4391555707