The physics program of the PADME experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Oliva
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Positron Annihilation ◽  
Positron Beam ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Beam Test ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

Abstract PADME (Positron Annihilation into Dark Matter Experiment) is a fixed target experiment located at the Beam Test Facility (BTF) at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) designed to search for a massive dark photon A' in the process e+e- into γA', using a positron beam of energy up to 550 MeV.

scholarly journals Possibilities of Detecting Light Dark Matter Produced via Drell-Yan Channel in a Fixed Target Experiment

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Eduard Ursov ◽  
Anna Anokhina ◽  
Emil Khalikov ◽  
Ivan Vidulin ◽  
Tatiana Roganova
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Scalar Particles ◽  
Secondary Particles ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Background Events ◽  
Parameter Values ◽  
Neutrino Background ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

This work presents the complete modeling scheme of production and detection of two types of light dark matter (LDM)—Dirac fermionic and scalar particles—in a fixed target experiment using SHiP experiment as an example. The Drell-Yan process was chosen as a channel of LDM production; the deep inelastic scattering on lead nuclei was simulated and analyzed in the detector; the production of secondary particles was modeled with the aid of PYTHIA6 toolkit. Obtained observable parameters of secondary particles produced in events associated with LDM were compared with the background neutrino events that were simulated using GENIE toolkit. The yield of LDM events was calculated with various model parameter values. Using machine learning methods, a classifier that is able to distinguish LDM events from neutrino background events based on the observed parameters with high precision has been developed.

scholarly journals Spin physics at a fixed-target experiment at the LHC (AFTER@LHC)

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 336-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rakotozafindrabe ◽  
M. Anselmino ◽  
R. Arnaldi ◽  
S. J. Brodsky ◽  
V. Chambert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Target ◽  
Spin Physics ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

scholarly journals Feasibility Studies for Quarkonium Production at a Fixed-Target Experiment Using the LHC Proton and Lead Beams (AFTER@LHC)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Massacrier ◽  
B. Trzeciak ◽  
F. Fleuret ◽  
C. Hadjidakis ◽  
D. Kikola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Target Mode ◽  
Quarkonium Production ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Conventional Detection ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

Being used in the fixed-target mode, the multi-TeV LHC proton and lead beams allow for studies of heavy-flavour hadroproduction with unprecedented precision at backward rapidities, far negative Feynman-x, using conventional detection techniques. At the nominal LHC energies, quarkonia can be studied in detail inp+p,p+d, andp+Acollisions atsNN≃115 GeV and in Pb +pand Pb +Acollisions atsNN≃72 GeV with luminosities roughly equivalent to that of the collider mode that is up to 20 fb−1 yr−1inp+pandp+dcollisions, up to 0.6 fb−1 yr−1inp+Acollisions, and up to 10 nb−1 yr−1in Pb +Acollisions. In this paper, we assess the feasibility of such studies by performing fast simulations using the performance of a LHCb-like detector.

scholarly journals Prospective for A Fixed-Target ExpeRiment at the LHC: AFTER @ LHC

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Lansberg ◽  
Valérie Chambert ◽  
Jean-Pierre Didelez ◽  
Bernard Genolini ◽  
Cynthia Hadjidakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Target ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

scholarly journals Prospective for a fixed-target experiment at the LHC: AFTER @ LHC

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Lansberg ◽  
Valérie Chambert ◽  
Jean-Pierre Didelez ◽  
Bernard Genolini ◽  
Cynthia Hadjidakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Target ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

scholarly journals Feasibility Studies for Single Transverse-Spin Asymmetry Measurements at a Fixed-Target Experiment Using the LHC Proton and Lead Beams (AFTER@LHC)

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kikoła ◽  
Miguel García Echevarria ◽  
Cynthia Hadjidakis ◽  
Jean-Philippe Lansberg ◽  
Cédric Lorcé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spin Asymmetry ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Transverse Spin ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

scholarly journals The BmnRoot framework for experimental data processing in the BM@N experiment at NICA

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 05027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Batyuk ◽  
Konstantin Gertsenberger ◽  
Sergey Merts ◽  
Oleg Rogachevsky
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Nuclear Research ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Experimental Data Processing ◽  
Multiparticle Interaction ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
New Generation

A new generation of experiments for the relativistic nuclear physics is expected to be started up in the nearest years at the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) under construction at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna. The main part of the facility is the essentially modernized accelerator Nuclotron. BM@N (Baryonic Matter at Nuclotron) is considered as a first stage towards realization of physics program available at NICA. It is a fixed target experiment aimed to work with the Nuclotron extracted beams of different species. The experiment had a set of technical runs since 2015. For a successful realization of the BM@N physics program, a well developed and tested software for simulation, digitization, reconstruction and analysis of collision events and other additional tasks is of utmost importance. The BmnRoot software developed in order to operate the mentioned tasks is described in this article. It includes modules for data digitizing obtained from BM@N detector systems, realistic simulation of signals in detectors, alignment of detectors, reconstruction of multiparticle interaction events, as well as all necessary systems for maintaining the databases of the experiment, visualization and providing information support for the experiment.

scholarly journals News from the NA61/SHINE experiment

2018 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 05002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evgeny Andronov
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Collision Energy ◽  
Hadron Production ◽  
Fixed Target ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Onset Of Deconfinement ◽  
Fixed Target Experiment

NA61/SHINE is a fixed target experiment operating at the CERN SPS. Its main goals are to search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter and to study the onset of deconfinement. For these goals a scan of the two dimensional phase diagram (T-μB) is being performed at the SPS by measurements of hadron production in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleusnucleus interactions as a function of collision energy. In this paper the status of the NA61/SHINE strong interaction physics programme is presented including recent results on proton intermittency, strongly intensive fluctuation observables of multiplicity and transverse momentum fluctuations. These measurements are expected to be sensitive to the correlation length in the produced matter and, therefore, have the ability to reveal the existence of the critical point via possible non-monotonic behavior. The NA61/SHINE results are compared to the model predictions.

scholarly journals Proposal to Search for a Dark Photon in Positron on Target Collisions at DAΦNE Linac

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Raggi ◽  
Venelin Kozhuharov
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Positron Beam ◽  
Mass Region ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Dark Photon ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Vector Bosons ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
One Year

Photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model. They have interactions similar to the photon, are vector bosons, and can be produced together with photons. The present paper proposes a search for such particles in thee+e-→Uγprocess in a positron-on-target experiment, exploiting the positron beam of the DAΦNE linac at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN. In one year of running a sensitivity in the relative interaction strength down to ~10−6is achievable, in the mass region from 2.5 MeV<MU<20 MeV. The proposed experimental setup and the analysis technique are discussed.

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