Sub-GeV dark matter search at ILC beam dumps

Kento Asai (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277–8582, Japan; Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering Science, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, 240–8501, Japan) ; Sho Iwamoto (Institute for Theoretical Physics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, H-1117, Hungary; Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804351, Taiwan; Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, 804351, Taiwan) ; Maxim Perelstein (Department of Physics, LEPP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA) ; Yasuhito Sakaki (Radiation Science Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Ibaraki, 305–0801, Japan; The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, 240–0193, Japan) ; Daiki Ueda (Theory Center, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan; Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China)

Light dark matter particles may be produced in electron and positron beam dumps of the International Linear Collider (ILC). We propose an experimental setup to search for such events, the Beam-Dump eXperiment at the ILC (ILC-BDX). The setup consists of a muon shield placed behind the beam dump, followed by a multi-layer tracker and an electromagnetic calorimeter. The calorimeter can detect electron recoils due to elastic scattering of dark matter particles produced in the dump, while the tracker is sensitive to decays of excited dark-sector states into the dark matter particle. We study the production, decay and scattering of sub-GeV dark matter particles in this setup in several models with a dark photon mediator. Taking into account beam-related backgrounds due to neutrinos produced in the beam dump as well as the cosmic-ray background, we evaluate the sensitivity reach of the ILC-BDX experiment. We find that the ILC-BDX will be able to probe interesting regions of the model parameter space and, in many cases, reach well below the relic target.

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Published on:
16 February 2024
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Springer
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Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2024 (2024)
Issue 2
Pages 1-35
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2024)129
arXiv:
2301.03816
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