Detection of Dark Photon Decaying into $e^+e^-$ using Cherenkov Radiation

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العنوان: Detection of Dark Photon Decaying into $e^+e^-$ using Cherenkov Radiation
المؤلفون: Choi, Suyong, Kim, Yunjun, Roh, Youn
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: In dark photon search experiments with electron beam-dumps, it is difficult to access the smaller dark photon life-time region of phase space due to enormous backgrounds from low-energy particles emerging from the target. In order to reduce the background, a thick beam-dump target is usually necessary. We propose to detect the Cherenkov radiation in gas due to ultra-relativistic electron and positron from dark photon decay. The secondary particles emerging from the beam dump have very little chance to produce such Cherenkov radiation in gas. Making use of the direction of the Cherenkov radiation, low background dark photon search with thinner target is possible. This would allow one to access challenging regions of the dark photon parameter space with low power electron beams and low-cost experimental setup.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06512
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1704.06512
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv