Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The potential of the intense secondary muon, neutrino, and (hypothetical) light dark matter beams at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) is explored. These are produced in the high-power dumps with high-current electron beams. Light dark matter searches with the approved Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) are driving the realization of a new underground vault behind Hall A that could be extended to a Beamdump Facility with little additional installations. High-energy muons created via the Bethe–Heitler process uniquely do not proceed through the more common pion production and decay channels. Several possible muon physics applications are highlighted. Neutrino detector technologies and experiments suitable for a beamdump facility are outlined.
Source: The European Physical Journal A
Authors: Patrick Achenbach, Andrei Afanasev, Pawel Ambrozewicz, Adi Ashkenazi, Dipanwita Banerjee, Marco Battaglieri, Jay Benesch, Mariangela Bondí, Paul Brindza, Alexandre Camsonne, Eric M. Christy, Ethan W. Cline, Chris Cuevas, Jens Dilling, Luca Doria, Stuart Fegan, Marco Filippini, Antonino Fulci, Simona Giovannella, Stefano Grazzi, Heather Jackson, Douglas Higinbotham, Cynthia Keppel, Vladimir Khachatryan, Michael Kohl, Hanjie Liu, Zhen Liu, Camillo Mariani, Ralph Marinaro, Kevin McFarland, Claudio Montanari, Vishvas Pandey, Eduard Pozdeyev, Jianwei Qiu, Patrizia Rossi, Riccardo Rossini, Todd Satogata, Glenn Schrader, Adrian Signer, Daniel Snowden-Ifft, Marco Spreafico, Diktys Stratakis, Manjukrishna Suresh, Holly Szumila, Júlia Tena Vidal, Davide Terzani, Charlie Velasquez, Michael Wood, Takayuki Yamazaki, Yuhong Zhang
Institutions: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, George Washington University, Tel Aviv University, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania, Old Dominion University, Stony Brook University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of York, University of Messina, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, Hampton University, University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, Christopher Newport University, University of Rochester, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Pavia, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, University of Zurich, Paul Scherrer Institute, Occidental College, Florida International University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,990
OpenAlex ID: W7117146363